Schreiner Oliver Daniel, Socotar Diana, Ciobanu Romeo Cristian, Schreiner Thomas Gabriel, Tamba Bogdan Ionel
Department of Electrical Measurements and Materials, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, 700050 Iasi, Romania.
CEMEX-Center for Experimental Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700259 Iasi, Romania.
Cancers (Basel). 2024 Jul 4;16(13):2454. doi: 10.3390/cancers16132454.
The paper describes the statistical analysis of the response of gastric cancer cells and normal cells to broadband terahertz radiation up to 4 THz, both with and without the use of nanostructured contrast agents. The THz spectroscopy analysis was comparatively performed under the ATR procedure and transmission measurement procedure. The statistical analysis was conducted towards multiple pairwise comparisons, including a support medium (without cells) versus a support medium with nanoparticles, normal cells versus normal cells with nanoparticles, and, respectively, tumor cells versus tumor cells with nanoparticles. When generally comparing the ATR procedure and transmission measurement procedure for a broader frequency domain, the differentiation between normal and tumor cells in the presence of contrast agents is superior when using the ATR procedure. THz contrast enhancement by using contrast agents derived from MRI-related contrast agents leads to only limited benefits and only for narrow THz frequency ranges, a disadvantage for THz medical imaging.
本文描述了胃癌细胞和正常细胞对高达4太赫兹的宽带太赫兹辐射的响应的统计分析,包括使用和不使用纳米结构造影剂的情况。太赫兹光谱分析是在衰减全反射(ATR)程序和透射测量程序下进行比较的。对多个成对比较进行了统计分析,包括支撑介质(无细胞)与含纳米颗粒的支撑介质、正常细胞与含纳米颗粒的正常细胞,以及肿瘤细胞与含纳米颗粒的肿瘤细胞。在更宽的频域中总体比较ATR程序和透射测量程序时,使用ATR程序时,在存在造影剂的情况下,正常细胞和肿瘤细胞之间的区分更优。使用源自磁共振成像(MRI)相关造影剂的造影剂实现的太赫兹对比度增强仅带来有限的益处,且仅适用于狭窄的太赫兹频率范围,这对太赫兹医学成像来说是一个缺点。