THz medical imaging: In vivo hydration sensing

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-219

  Taylor, Zachary D ^a   Singh, Rahul S ^a   Bennett, David B ^a   Tewari, Priyamvada ^a   Kealey, Colin P ^a   Bajwa, Neha ^a   Culjat, Martin O ^a   Stojadinovic, Alexander ^b   Lee, Hua ^c   Hubschman, Jean Pierre ^a   Brown, Elliott R ^d   Grundfest, Warren S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological and medical imaging; clinical instruments; hydration interactions; medical diagnostics; submillimeter; Terahertz; THz

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL IMAGING; CLINICAL INSTRUMENTS; HYDRATION INTERACTIONS; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; SUBMILLIMETERS; TERA HERTZ; THZ;

HYDRATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 80052493616     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2011.2159551     Document Type: Article

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