THz spectroscopic estimation of water content in human articular cartilage

Author

Jung, E. ; Park, H. ; Han, H. ; Kim, S. ; Park, I. ; Lim, H. ; Cui, J. ; Min, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Pohang, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Water distribution of human osteoarthritic articular cartilage has been characterized using terahertz time domain spectroscopy. The evaluation of water content in cartilage tissue can be helpful to diagnose the early degenerative joint diseases. The estimated water content in our measurement decreases along the depth of the cartilage tissue and shows a good agreement with the previous results acquired by destructive biochemical methods.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical measurement; patient diagnosis; terahertz spectroscopy; water; early degenerative joint disease diagnosis; human articular cartilage water distribution; human osteoarthritic articular cartilage; terahertz time domain spectroscopy; water content estimation; Absorption; Bones; Frequency; Humans; Joints; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Orthopedic surgery; Osteoarthritis; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5416-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5417-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5325510

Filename

5325510