TY - GEN
T1 - A terahertz chemical microscopy for an agar culture medium
AU - Nino, H.
AU - Nakamura, A.
AU - Omura, K.
AU - Sakai, K.
AU - Kiwa, T.
AU - Tsukada, K.
PY - 2014/10/17
Y1 - 2014/10/17
N2 - In the field of life science, the research trends are to visualize 'living' materials as it is, whereas most of conventional imaging methods require pre-treatments to living samples. In our group, a terahertz chemical microscope (TCM) has been proposed and developed to investigate metabolism by the cell activity. Here the agar medium, which was generally used to cultivate cells, was immobilized on the sensing plate of TCM and the concentration of the glucose in the buffer solutions on it was detected as the terahertz amplitude shift. This result suggests that the TCM can detect the glucose in the solutions and it may possible to detect the cell activity cultivated on the agar mediums.
AB - In the field of life science, the research trends are to visualize 'living' materials as it is, whereas most of conventional imaging methods require pre-treatments to living samples. In our group, a terahertz chemical microscope (TCM) has been proposed and developed to investigate metabolism by the cell activity. Here the agar medium, which was generally used to cultivate cells, was immobilized on the sensing plate of TCM and the concentration of the glucose in the buffer solutions on it was detected as the terahertz amplitude shift. This result suggests that the TCM can detect the glucose in the solutions and it may possible to detect the cell activity cultivated on the agar mediums.
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U2 - 10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6930088
DO - 10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6930088
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84919754195
T3 - 2014 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSI GASS 2014
BT - 2014 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSI GASS 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 31st General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science, URSI GASS 2014
Y2 - 16 August 2014 through 23 August 2014
ER -