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Chernomyrdin NV, Il'enkova DR, Zhelnov VA, Alekseeva AI, Gavdush AA, Musina GR, Nikitin PV, Kucheryavenko AS, Dolganova IN, Spektor IE, Tuchin VV, Zaytsev KI. Quantitative polarization-sensitive super-resolution solid immersion microscopy reveals biological tissues' birefringence in the terahertz range. Sci Rep 2023; 13:16596. [PMID: 37789192 PMCID: PMC10547778 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43857-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Terahertz (THz) technology offers a variety of applications in label-free medical diagnosis and therapy, majority of which rely on the effective medium theory that assumes biological tissues to be optically isotropic and homogeneous at the scale posed by the THz wavelengths. Meanwhile, most recent research discovered mesoscale ([Formula: see text]) heterogeneities of tissues; [Formula: see text] is a wavelength. This posed a problem of studying the related scattering and polarization effects of THz-wave-tissue interactions, while there is still a lack of appropriate tools and instruments for such studies. To address this challenge, in this paper, quantitative polarization-sensitive reflection-mode THz solid immersion (SI) microscope is developed, that comprises a silicon hemisphere-based SI lens, metal-wire-grid polarizer and analyzer, a continuous-wave 0.6 THz ([Formula: see text] µm) backward-wave oscillator (BWO), and a Golay detector. It makes possible the study of local polarization-dependent THz response of mesoscale tissue elements with the resolution as high as [Formula: see text]. It is applied to retrieve the refractive index distributions over the freshly-excised rat brain for the two orthogonal linear polarizations of the THz beam, aimed at uncovering the THz birefringence (structural optical anisotropy) of tissues. The most pronounced birefringence is observed for the Corpus callosum, formed by well-oriented and densely-packed axons bridging the cerebral hemispheres. The observed results are verified by the THz pulsed spectroscopy of the porcine brain, which confirms higher refractive index of the Corpus callosum when the THz beam is polarized along axons. Our findings highlight a potential of the quantitative polarization THz microscopy in biophotonics and medical imaging.
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Affiliation(s)
- N V Chernomyrdin
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991.
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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- Research Institute of Human Morphology, Moscow, Russia, 117418
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Integrative Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
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- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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- Institute of Physics and Science Medical Center, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia, 410012
- Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, 634050
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 119991.
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Musina GR, Chernomyrdin NV, Gafarova ER, Gavdush AA, Shpichka AJ, Komandin GA, Anzin VB, Grebenik EA, Kravchik MV, Istranova EV, Dolganova IN, Zaytsev KI, Timashev PS. Moisture adsorption by decellularized bovine pericardium collagen matrices studied by terahertz pulsed spectroscopy and solid immersion microscopy. Biomed Opt Express 2021; 12:5368-5386. [PMID: 34692188 PMCID: PMC8515980 DOI: 10.1364/boe.433216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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In this paper, terahertz (THz) pulsed spectroscopy and solid immersion microscopy were applied to study interactions between water vapor and tissue scaffolds-the decellularized bovine pericardium (DBP) collagen matrices, in intact form, cross-linked with the glutaraldehyde or treated by plasma. The water-absorbing properties of biomaterials are prognostic for future cell-mediated reactions of the recipient tissue with the scaffold. Complex dielectric permittivity of DBPs was measured in the 0.4-2.0 THz frequency range, while the samples were first dehydrated and then exposed to water vapor atmosphere with 80.0 ± 5.0% relative humidity. These THz dielectric measurements of DBPs and the results of their weighting allowed to estimate the adsorption time constants, an increase of tissue mass, as well as dispersion of these parameters. During the adsorption process, changes in the DBPs' dielectric permittivity feature an exponential character, with the typical time constant of =8-10 min, the transient process saturation at =30 min, and the tissue mass improvement by =1-3%. No statistically-relevant differences between the measured properties of the intact and treated DBPs were observed. Then, contact angles of wettability were measured for the considered DBPs using a recumbent drop method, while the observed results showed that treatments of DBP somewhat affects their surface energies, polarity, and hydrophilicity. Thus, our studies revealed that glutaraldehyde and plasma treatment overall impact the DBP-water interactions, but the resultant effects appear to be quite complex and comparable to the natural variability of the tissue properties. Such a variability was attributed to the natural heterogeneity of tissues, which was confirmed by the THz microscopy data. Our findings are important for further optimization of the scaffolds' preparation and treatment technologies. They pave the way for THz technology use as a non-invasive diagnosis tool in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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- G R Musina
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign & Personalized Healthcare", Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign & Personalized Healthcare", Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign & Personalized Healthcare", Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- Chemistry Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
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- Scientific Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Russia
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign & Personalized Healthcare", Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign & Personalized Healthcare", Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia
- Chemistry Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Department of Polymers and Composites, N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russia
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Kucheryavenko AS, Chernomyrdin NV, Gavdush AA, Alekseeva AI, Nikitin PV, Dolganova IN, Karalkin PA, Khalansky AS, Spektor IE, Skorobogatiy M, Tuchin VV, Zaytsev KI. Terahertz dielectric spectroscopy and solid immersion microscopy of ex vivo glioma model 101.8: brain tissue heterogeneity. Biomed Opt Express 2021; 12:5272-5289. [PMID: 34513256 PMCID: PMC8407834 DOI: 10.1364/boe.432758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Terahertz (THz) technology holds strong potential for the intraoperative label-free diagnosis of brain gliomas, aimed at ensuring their gross-total resection. Nevertheless, it is still far from clinical applications due to the limited knowledge about the THz-wave-brain tissue interactions. In this work, rat glioma model 101.8 was studied ex vivo using both the THz pulsed spectroscopy and the 0.15λ-resolution THz solid immersion microscopy (λ is a free-space wavelength). The considered homograft model mimics glioblastoma, possesses heterogeneous character, unclear margins, and microvascularity. Using the THz spectroscopy, effective THz optical properties of brain tissues were studied, as averaged within the diffraction-limited beam spot. Thus measured THz optical properties revealed a persistent difference between intact tissues and a tumor, along with fluctuations of the tissue response over the rat brain. The observed THz microscopic images showed heterogeneous character of brain tissues at the scale posed by the THz wavelengths, which is due to the distinct response of white and gray matters, the presence of different neurovascular structures, as well as due to the necrotic debris and hemorrhage in a tumor. Such heterogeneities might significantly complicate delineation of tumor margins during the intraoperative THz neurodiagnosis. The presented results for the first time pose the problem of studying the inhomogeneity of brain tissues that causes scattering of THz waves, as well as the urgent need to use the radiation transfer theory for describing the THz-wave - tissue interactions.
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- A S Kucheryavenko
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov University, Russia
- Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute, Russia
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- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov University, Russia
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- Institute for Cluster Oncology, Sechenov University, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
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- Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
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- Science Medical Center, Saratov State University, Russia
- Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- National Research Tomsk State University, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
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Gavdush AA, Chernomyrdin NV, Komandin GA, Dolganova IN, Nikitin PV, Musina GR, Katyba GM, Kucheryavenko AS, Reshetov IV, Potapov AA, Tuchin VV, Zaytsev KI. Terahertz dielectric spectroscopy of human brain gliomas and intact tissues ex vivo: double-Debye and double-overdamped-oscillator models of dielectric response. Biomed Opt Express 2021; 12:69-83. [PMID: 33659071 PMCID: PMC7899500 DOI: 10.1364/boe.411025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Terahertz (THz) technology offers novel opportunities in the intraoperative neurodiagnosis. Recently, the significant progress was achieved in the study of brain gliomas and intact tissues, highlighting a potential for THz technology in the intraoperative delineation of tumor margins. However, a lack of physical models describing the THz dielectric permittivity of healthy and pathological brain tissues restrains the further progress in this field. In the present work, the ex vivo THz dielectric response of human brain tissues was analyzed using relaxation models of complex dielectric permittivity. Dielectric response of tissues was parametrized by a pair of the Debye relaxators and a pair of the overdamped-oscillators - namely, the double-Debye (DD) and double-overdamped-oscillator (DO) models. Both models accurately reproduce the experimental curves for the intact tissues and the WHO Grades I-IV gliomas. While the DD model is more common for THz biophotonics, the DO model is more physically rigorous, since it satisfies the sum rule. In this way, the DO model and the sum rule were, then, applied to estimate the content of water in intact tissues and gliomas ex vivo. The observed results agreed well with the earlier-reported data, justifying water as a main endogenous label of brain tumors in the THz range. The developed models can be used to describe completely the THz-wave - human brain tissues interactions in the frameworks of classical electrodynamics, being quite important for further research and developments in THz neurodiagnosis of tumors.
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- A A Gavdush
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
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- P.K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
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- Institute for Cluster Oncology, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia
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- Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
- Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov, Russia
- National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Gavdush AA, Chernomyrdin NV, Lavrukhin DV, Cao Y, Komandin GA, Spektor IE, Perov AN, Dolganova IN, Katyba GM, Kurlov VN, Ponomarev DS, Skorobogatiy M, Reshetov IV, Zaytsev KI. Proof of concept for continuously-tunable terahertz bandpass filter based on a gradient metal-hole array. Opt Express 2020; 28:26228-26238. [PMID: 32906899 DOI: 10.1364/oe.401608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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A continuously-tunable terahertz (THz) bandpass filter based on the resonant electromagnetic-wave transmission through a metal-hole array featuring a gradually changing period was developed and fabricated on a silicon substrate using optical lithography. A gradient geometry of the metal-hole array yields a wide tunability of the filter transmission, when operating with a focussed THz beam. The filter was studied numerically, using the finite element method, and experimentally, using the THz pulsed spectroscopy. We find that the central wavelength of the filter transmission band can be tuned in the wide range of λc = 400-800 μm with the relative bandwidth of Δλ/λc ≃ ~0.4. Finally, Kapton-based anti-reflection coating was applied to the filter flat side, in order to suppress an interference pattern in the filter transmission spectrum. We believe that the developed filter holds strong potential for multispectral THz imaging and sensing due to its conceptual simplicity and case of operation. Moreover, the presented filter concept can be translated to other spectral ranges, where appropriate technologies are available for the fabrication of gradient sub-wavelength metal-hole arrays.
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Gavdush AA, Chernomyrdin NV, Malakhov KM, Beshplav SIT, Dolganova IN, Kosyrkova AV, Nikitin PV, Musina GR, Katyba GM, Reshetov IV, Cherkasova OP, Komandin GA, Karasik VE, Potapov AA, Tuchin VV, Zaytsev KI. Terahertz spectroscopy of gelatin-embedded human brain gliomas of different grades: a road toward intraoperative THz diagnosis. J Biomed Opt 2019; 24:1-5. [PMID: 30729762 PMCID: PMC6988181 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.24.2.027001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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We applied terahertz (THz)-pulsed spectroscopy to study ex vivo the refractive index and absorption coefficient of human brain gliomas featuring different grades, as well as perifocal regions containing both intact and edematous tissues. Glioma samples from 26 patients were considered and analyzed according to further histological examination. In order to fix tissues for the THz measurements, we applied gelatin embedding, which allows for sustaining their THz response unaltered, as compared to that of the freshly excised tissues. We observed a statistical difference between the THz optical constants of intact tissues and gliomas of grades I to IV, while the response of edema was similar to that of tumor. The results of this paper justify a potential of THz technology in the intraoperative label-free diagnosis of human brain gliomas for ensuring the gross-total resection.
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Affiliation(s)
- Arseniy A. Gavdush
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
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- Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Moscow, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
- Address all correspondence to Kirill I. Zaytsev, E-mail:
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Zaytsev KI, Kudrin KG, Reshetov IV, Gavdush AA, Chernomyrdin NV, Karasik VE, Yurchenko SO. In vivospectroscopy of healthy skin and pathology in terahertz frequency range. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/584/1/012023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Zaytsev KI, Gavdush AA, Lebedev SP, Yurchenko SO. Novel Algorithm for Sample Material Parameter Determination using THz Time-Domain Spectrometer Signal Processing. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/486/1/012018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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