[HTML][HTML] Terahertz (THz) biophotonics technology: Instrumentation, techniques, and biomedical applications

X Chen, H Lindley-Hatcher, RI Stantchev… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Terahertz (THz) technology has experienced rapid development in the past two decades.
Growing numbers of interdisciplinary applications are emerging, including materials …

Broadband photodetectors and imagers in stretchable electronics packaging

T Araki, K Li, D Suzuki, T Abe, R Kawabata… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of flexible electronics with optics can help realize a powerful tool that
facilitates the creation of a smart society wherein internal evaluations can be easily …

[HTML][HTML] Real time THz imaging—opportunities and challenges for skin cancer detection

H Lindley-Hatcher, RI Stantchev, X Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
It was first suggested that terahertz imaging has the potential to detect skin cancer twenty
years ago. Since then, THz instrumentation has improved significantly: real time broadband …

Terahertz technology and its applications in head and neck diseases

S Shi, S Yuan, J Zhou, P Jiang - IScience, 2023 - cell.com
The terahertz (THz) radiation refers to electromagnetic waves between infrared and
millimeter waves. THz technology has shown a significant potential for medical diagnosis …

[HTML][HTML] Thz sensing of human skin: A review of skin modeling approaches

J Wang, H Lindley-Hatcher, X Chen… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The non-ionizing and non-invasive nature of THz radiation, combined with its high sensitivity
to water, has made THz imaging and spectroscopy highly attractive for in vivo biomedical …

Quantitative evaluation of transdermal drug delivery patches on human skin with in vivo THz-TDS

X Ding, G Costa, AI Hernandez-Serrano… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Transdermal drug delivery (TDD) has been widely used in medical treatments due to various
advantages, including delivering drugs at a consistent rate. However, variations in skin …

Evaluation of in vivo THz sensing for assessing human skin hydration

H Lindley-Hatcher, AI Hernandez-Serrano… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Terahertz (THz) in vivo reflection imaging can be used to assess the water content of the
surface of the skin. This study presents the results of treating 20 subjects with aqueous …

Moisture adsorption by decellularized bovine pericardium collagen matrices studied by terahertz pulsed spectroscopy and solid immersion microscopy

GR Musina, NV Chernomyrdin, ER Gafarova… - Biomedical optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, terahertz (THz) pulsed spectroscopy and solid immersion microscopy were
applied to study interactions between water vapor and tissue scaffolds–the decellularized …

Effect of transdermal drug delivery patches on the stratum corneum: in vivo inspection with a handheld terahertz probe

AI Hernandez-Serrano, X Ding, G Costa… - Biomedical Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Transdermal drug delivery patches are a good alternative to hypodermic drug injection. The
drug delivery efficiency depends strongly on the hydration of the skin under treatment, and …

Monitoring the effect of transdermal drug delivery patches on the skin using terahertz sensing

H Lindley-Hatcher, J Wang, AI Hernandez-Serrano… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Water content of the skin is an important parameter for controlling the penetration rate of
chemicals through the skin barrier; therefore, for transdermal patches designed for drug …