Terahertz radiation and the skin: a review

AI Nikitkina, PY Bikmulina, ER Gafarova… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Terahertz (THz) radiation has demonstrated a great potential in biomedical
applications over the past three decades, mainly due to its non-invasive and label-free …

Terahertz biophotonics as a tool for studies of dielectric and spectral properties of biological tissues and liquids

OA Smolyanskaya, NV Chernomyrdin… - Progress in Quantum …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe dielectric properties of biological tissues and liquids in the
context of terahertz (THz) biophotonics. We discuss a model of the THz dielectric permittivity …

The progress and perspectives of terahertz technology for diagnosis of neoplasms: a review

KI Zaytsev, IN Dolganova, NV Chernomyrdin… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past few decades, significant attention has been paid to the biomedical
applications of terahertz (THz) technology. Nowadays, THz spectroscopy and imaging have …

[HTML][HTML] THz pulsed imaging in biomedical applications

A D'Arco, M Di Fabrizio, V Dolci, M Petrarca, S Lupi - Condensed Matter, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in technology have allowed the production and the coherent detection of
sub-ps pulses of terahertz (THz) radiation. Therefore, the potentialities of this technique have …

[HTML][HTML] THz biosensing applications for clinical laboratories: Bottlenecks and strategies

H Tian, G Huang, F Xie, W Fu, X Yang - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid and sensitive detection of various cells and biomolecules in a nondestructive manner
is of great importance for clinical laboratories. Terahertz (THz) spectrometric approaches are …

Measurement of tissue optical properties in a wide spectral range: a review

IS Martins, HF Silva, EN Lazareva… - Biomedical Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A distinctive feature of this review is a critical analysis of methods and results of
measurements of the optical properties of tissues in a wide spectral range from deep UV to …

High Kerr nonlinearity of water in THz spectral range

AN Tcypkin, MV Melnik, MO Zhukova, IO Vorontsova… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The values of the nonlinear refractive index coefficient for various materials in the terahertz
frequency range exceed the ones in both visible and NIR ranges by several orders of …

Optimal hyperosmotic agents for tissue immersion optical clearing in terahertz biophotonics

GR Musina, IN Dolganova… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a thorough analysis of hyperosmotic agents for the immersion optical clearing
(IOC) in terahertz (THz) range was performed. It was aimed at the selection of agents for the …

Detection of living cervical cancer cells by transient terahertz spectroscopy

W Shi, Y Wang, L Hou, C Ma, L Yang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The photonic energy of terahertz wave is in the same order of magnitude as the rotational
and vibrational energy levels of organic and biological macromolecules, so it has unique …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative polarization-sensitive super-resolution solid immersion microscopy reveals biological tissues' birefringence in the terahertz range

NV Chernomyrdin, DR Il'enkova, VA Zhelnov… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Terahertz (THz) technology offers a variety of applications in label-free medical diagnosis
and therapy, majority of which rely on the effective medium theory that assumes biological …