A promising diagnostic method:Terahertz pulsed imaging and spectroscopy

作     者：Ming Yiu Sy Yi-Xiang J Wang Anil T Ahuja Emma Pickwell-MacPherson 

作者机构：Department of Electronic EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Imaging and Interventional RadiologyThe Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Electronic and Computer EngineeringHong Kong University of Science and Technology 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Radiology》 (世界放射学杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第3卷第3期

页      面：55-65页

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 100207[医学-影像医学与核医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 08[工学] 1010[医学-医学技术（可授医学、理学学位）] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by in part for this work from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Government and the Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering  Hong Kong 

主　　题：Biomedical Imaging Spectroscopy Terahertz 

摘      要：The terahertz band lies between the microwave and infrared regions of the electromagnetic *** radiation has very low photon energy and thus it does not pose any ionization hazard for biological *** is strongly attenuated by water and very sensitive to water *** absorption spectra due to intermolecular vibrations in this region have been found in different biological *** unique features make tera-hertz imaging very attractive for medical applications in order to provide complimentary information to existing imaging *** has been an increasing interest in terahertz imaging and spectroscopy of biologically related applications within the last few years and more and more terahertz spectra are being *** paper introduces terahertz technology and provides a short review of recent advances in terahertz imaging and spectroscopy techniques,and a number of applications such as molecular spectroscopy,tissue characterization and skin imaging are discussed.