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Design and Development of Terahertz Medical Screening Devices

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Trends in Wireless Communication and Information Security

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This paper highlights the prospect of design and development of a terahertz medical screening system, giving an overview of existing devices, systems, for THz spectroscopy and imaging of biological samples (e.g., cell, tissue imaging or screening). Considering the non-ionizing nature of THz waves along with its reasonable soft-tissue sensitivity, terahertz instrumentation has opened up possibilities for medical screening devices. Some THz imaging systems presently use raster scanning for calculation of image region of interest. Here, a particular system is proposed as a medical screening device and factors like signal-to-noise ratio, image resolution, image contrast, etc., have been described and correlated with relevant clinical results for exploring possible prospects in medical applications of terahertz waves.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, PPG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India

    M. P. Karthikeyan

  2. Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

    Debabrata Samanta

  3. Physics Department, Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol, India

    Amit Banerjee

  4. Department of Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Arjya Roy

  5. Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan

    Hiroshi Inokawa

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amity University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

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  2. Amity University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Raman Kr. Jha

  3. Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

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  4. Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Sikkim, India

    Samarendra Nath Sur

  5. North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

    Debdatta Kandar

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Karthikeyan, M.P., Samanta, D., Banerjee, A., Roy, A., Inokawa, H. (2021). Design and Development of Terahertz Medical Screening Devices. In: Chakraborty, M., Jha, R.K., Balas, V.E., Sur, S.N., Kandar, D. (eds) Trends in Wireless Communication and Information Security. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 740. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6393-9_40

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