The news agency "Rosbalt" published an article on the development of the Laboratory of the Institute of International Biomedical terahertz photonics and optoinformatics Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies in the study of the properties of THz radiation, which in the future can make life easier for diabetics.
Terahertz radiation can easily pass through the most dielectrics and also, unlike X-rays, does not bear a negative impact on the body. These properties allow Master student of the Department of Photonics and optoinformatics eponymous Mary Borovkova faculty and research engineers terahertz laboratory biomedicine Svyatoslav Gusevupredpolozhit that THz technology can be used in medicine - in particular, in the laboratory.
Through a series of experiments, scientists have identified a relationship between optical characteristics and blood sugar levels, which means that THz technology could form the basis for the work of non-invasive blood glucose meter. Such a development is capable of producing a revolution in medicine: First, it will give considerable savings of consumables, and secondly, the need to relieve diabetics go through daily painful procedure of blood sampling for analysis.
The full text is available at news agency "Rosbalt".
Press Service of the Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies