Non-destructive drug inspection in covering materials using a terahertz spectral imaging system with injection-seeded terahertz parametric generation and detection

M Kato, SR Tripathi, K Murate, K Imayama… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In 2003, we reported the first-ever development of a spectral imaging system for illicit drugs
detection using a terahertz (THz) wave parametric oscillator (TPO)[K. Kawase et al., Opt …

[HTML][HTML] Diffuse terahertz spectroscopy in turbid media using a wavelet-based bimodality spectral analysis

ME Khani, OB Osman, MH Arbab - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Current terahertz (THz) spectroscopy techniques only use the coherent light beam for
spectral imaging. In the presence of electromagnetic scattering, however, the scattering …

Chemical identification in the specular and off-specular rough-surface scattered terahertz spectra using wavelet shrinkage

ME Khani, MH Arbab - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the development and implementation of a novel wavelet shrinkage technique for
the retrieval of obscured characteristic resonant signatures in the scattered terahertz (THz) …

[HTML][HTML] Translation-invariant zero-phase wavelet methods for feature extraction in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

ME Khani, MH Arbab - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wavelet transform is an important tool in the computational signal processing of terahertz
time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) measurements. Despite its prevalence, the effects of …

Phase function effects on identification of terahertz spectral signatures using the discrete wavelet transform

ME Khani, DP Winebrenner… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe the application of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) in extracting the
characteristic absorption signatures of materials from terahertz reflection spectra. We …

Multiresolution spectrally-encoded terahertz reflection imaging through a highly diffusive cloak

ME Khani, ZB Harris, M Liu, MH Arbab - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Turbid media, made of wavelength-scale inhomogeneous particles, can give rise to many
significant imaging and spectroscopy challenges. The random variation of the refractive …

[HTML][HTML] Mitigating the effects of granular scattering using cepstrum analysis in terahertz time-domain spectral imaging

OB Osman, MH Arbab - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Terahertz (THz) imaging is a widely used technique in the study and detection of many
chemicals and biomolecules in polycrystalline form because the spectral absorption …

Characterizations of the Calamine tablets by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

S Hao, H Huang, Y Ma, S Liu, Z Zhang, Z Zheng - Optik, 2019 - Elsevier
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is an attractive technique that is capable of
non-destructive penetrating and probing pharmaceutical tablets conveniently. It can provide …

Identification and quantitative analysis of chemical compounds based on multiscale linear fitting of terahertz spectra

L Qiao, Y Wang, Z Zhao, Z Chen - Optical Engineering, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy is considered as an attractive tool for the analysis
of chemical composition. The traditional methods for identification and quantitative analysis …

Scattering effects in terahertz wave spectroscopy of granulated solids

VV Kornienko, RA Akhmedzhanov… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applications of terahertz spectroscopy methods to granulated solids are substantially
constrained by the effects of scattering of the incident terahertz waves by spatial …