Quantitative investigation of the bioeffects associated with terahertz radiation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7562, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wilmink, Gerald J ^a,b   Rivest, Benjamin D ^a   Ibey, Bennett L ^a   Roth, Caleb L ^c   Bernhard, Joshua ^a   Roach, William P ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c General Dynamics AIS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Optical properties; Terahertz; THz; Tissue

Indexed keywords

BIO-EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CALORIMETRIC ASSAY; CELLULAR RESPONSE; CELLULAR VIABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL DOSIMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTROL SAMPLES; CONTROL-CELL; DNA DAMAGES; DNA REPAIR; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; GENOTOXIC; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; MOLECULAR GAS; PHOTO-THERMAL; POST-EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; QUANTITATIVE PCR; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THZ; THZ LASERS; THZ RADIATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; DNA; DOSIMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GENES; HISTOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROTEINS; PUMPING (LASER); THERMOCOUPLES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77951669056     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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