Assessing skin hydration status in haemodialysis patients using terahertz spectroscopy: a pilot/feasibility study

• Published in: Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 53; no. 24; pp. 7063 - 7071
• Main Authors: Kadlec, Filip, Berta, Milan, Kužel, Petr, Lopot, František, Polakovič, Vladimír
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 21.12.2008
• Subjects: Electric Conductivity; Equipment Design; Feasibility Studies; Humans; Kidney Diseases - pathology; Optics and Photonics; Renal Dialysis - adverse effects; Skin - metabolism; Skin - pathology; Skin Physiological Phenomena; Terahertz Spectroscopy - instrumentation; Terahertz Spectroscopy - methods; Time Factors; Water - metabolism
• ISSN: 0031-9155; 1361-6560
• DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/24/004

Terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy was used in vivo to measure the body reflectance with the aim of determining experimentally the influence of haemodialysis on the content of water in the human skin. For this purpose, an original methodology of determining the skin properties at THz frequenci...