Terahertz Technology in the Future of Health and Medical Applications

Application of Smartphone Technologies in Disease Monitoring: A Systematic Review

“…A study found that it is feasible to remotely monitor terminally ill cancer patients with an app-integrated wearable sensor system [ 64 ]. Nevertheless, the detection of cancer at an early stage could drastically reduce the risk [ 83 ]. However, screening faces hindrance due to barriers such as insufficient knowledge about cancer, the purpose of screening [ 84 ], emotional aspects [ 85 ], and a variety of personal, practitioner, test-related and logistical factors [ 86 ].…”

“…Smartphone-based telemedicine has good prospects in the future of healthcare delivery systems amongst cancer patients, especially among those unable to visit hospitals regularly due to a weakened immune system [ 88 ]. There is a scope for smartphone integrated technologies in biomedical image analysis including detection for skin/breast cancer [ 83 , 89 , 90 ], cancer pain management [ 91 ], treatment of breast cancer [ 92 ], and dissemination of information to help cancer patients in non-clinical settings [ 93 ]. Although recently several apps have been developed for cancer management, a study revealed that only 3% of apps ( n = 4/123) had been evaluated by healthcare providers [ 94 ].…”

Excitation of Ultraslow High‐q Surface Plasmon Polariton Modes in Dense Arrays of Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes

“…At the frequencies of some tens of THz, the intraband term𝜎 intra dominates in Equation (1). At low temperatures, when 𝜇 >> kT [31] (it is the case for the used 𝜇 and T), Equation ( 1) is reduced to the well-known Drude-like formula widely used for characterization of CNT conductivity in THz range [35] :…”

“…Therefore, to study the plasmonic properties of doped MWCNT with a diameter of about 10 nm, it is reasonable to assume a CNT as a set of infinitesimally thin layers independently placed one into another with the layer conductivity determined by Equation (1). A more detailed discussion of this issue will be published elsewhere.…”

“…Due to high demand in THz sources for spectroscopic and medical applications, elaboration of THz generators has become one of the most rapidly growing fields. [1][2][3] Arrays of parallel carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanocomposites based on them are being enthusiastically studied as promising tool for generation and handling of electromagnetic radiation in various frequency ranges, from optical to microwave. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] CNT arrays are effectively exploited for fabrication of radiation absorbers, [6,9] sensors, [13] thermal emitters, [4,10] signal processing devices, [5,11] terahertz, and IR emitters.…”