THz chemical imaging for biological applications

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 293-300

  Ajito, Katsuhiro ^a   Ueno, Yuko ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer diagnosis; hydrogen bonds; molecular clusters; molecular interactions; molecular networks; quantitative chemical analysis; terahertz chemical imaging

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR CLUSTERS; MOLECULAR NETWORKS; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; TERA HERTZ;

ANTENNAS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICALS; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80052508396     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2011.2159562     Document Type: Article

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