A Pilot Clinical Study to Investigate the Human Whole Blood Spectrum   Characteristics in the Sub-THz Region
  We have conducted a pilot clinical study to not only investigate the THz spectra of ex-vivo fresh human whole blood of 28 patients following 8-hours fasting guideline, but also to find out the critical blood ingredients of which the concentration dominantly affects those THz spectra. A great difference between the THz absorption properties of human blood among different people was observed, while the difference can be up to ~15% of the averaged absorption coefficient of the 28 samples. Our pilot clinical study indicates that triglyceride and red blood cell were two dominant factors to have significant clinically defined negative correlation to the sub-THz absorption coefficients. 
Tzu-Fang Tseng, Borwen You, Hao-Cheng Gao, Tzung-Dau Wang, and   Chi-Kuang Sun
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