Investigation of Hydrogel Skin Phantoms Using Terahertz Time-domain SpectroscopyShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: 2022 52nd European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022, p. 401-403Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Human skin phantoms are essential to enable fast, label-free, and reliable testing of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. We report the characterisation of polyvinyl alcohol-based hydrogel phantoms along with in-vivo skin measurements of three volunteers from 0.2 to 1 THz. The results indicate that frequency-dependent properties of hydrogel phantoms are similar to human skin and show promising prospects of being utilised as a skin equivalent.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022. p. 401-403
Keywords [en]
Hydrogel, in-vivo, phantom, refractive index, stratum corneum, terahertz, time-domain spectroscopy, Hydrogels, Phantoms, Plasmons, Reflectometers, Spectrophotometers, Terahertz spectroscopy, Human skin, Label free, Pharmaceutical products, Skin phantom, Tera Hertz, Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, Time domain spectroscopy
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-61420DOI: 10.23919/EuMC54642.2022.9924308Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85142223826ISBN: 9782874870699 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-61420DiVA, id: diva2:1718017
Conference
52nd European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2022, 27 September 2022 through 29 September 2022
Note
Funding details: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC, EP/V047914/1; Funding details: Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning, SSF, FID17-0040; Funding text 1: This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project number EP/V047914/1. Miss. Jayasankar s research visit to the University of Warwick was supported by the European Microwave Association s (EuMA) internship award 2021. Her PhD project is supported by the Swedish Foundation for strategic research (SSF) project number FID17-0040.; Funding text 2: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project number EP/V047914/1. Miss. Jayasankar’s research visit to the University of Warwick was supported by the European Microwave Association’s (EuMA) internship award 2021. Her PhD project is supported by the Swedish Foundation for strategic research (SSF) project number FID17-0040.
2022-12-122022-12-122023-05-16Bibliographically approved