THz imaging of skin hydration: Motivation for the frequency band

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7555, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Singh, Rahul S ^a,b   Taylor, Zachary D ^a,b   Tewari, Priyamvada ^a   Bennett, David ^a   Culjat, Martin O ^a,b   Lee, Hua ^b   Brown, Elliott R ^b   Grundfest, Warren S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Reflective THz; Skin hydration; System; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION ,; BROAD ABSORPTION LINES; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MEASUREMENT SENSITIVITY; NONIONIZING RADIATION; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POWER FRACTION; SKIN HYDRATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECULAR DIRECTION; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ SYSTEMS; THZ IMAGING; THZ PULSE; TRANSMISSION WINDOW; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER VOLUMES;

FREQUENCY BANDS; HYDRATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IONIZING RADIATION; MONITORING; MOTIVATION; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCATTERING;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77951716279     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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