Optical Instruments, Volume. 41, Issue 6, 8(2019)

Study on non-invasive blood glucose measurement based on terahertz attenuated total reflection spectroscopy

Henghui YIN1,2, Lixia WANG1,2, and Lin CHEN1,2、*
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  • 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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    Based on terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and prism attenuated total reflection technique, we design a non-invasive blood glucose detection system with terahertz wave reflectance spectroscopy. With the help of Debye model, it is found that the change of water content in the skin can affect the relaxation of the skin in terahertz band. The relationship between the complex refractive index of the skin and the water content of the skin is obtained. The method of calculating the real part and imaginary part of skin refractive index is given by means of Fresnel formula. The real and imaginary parts of the complex refractive index of human thumb skin measured by terahertz spectroscopy are compared with the actual human blood glucose concentration measured by oral glucose tolerance test. The relationship between the terahertz reflection spectrum and complex refractive index of human thumb skin are positively correlated with human blood glucose concentration. It provides a new method for the application of terahertz in noninvasive blood glucose concentration detection.

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    Henghui YIN, Lixia WANG, Lin CHEN. Study on non-invasive blood glucose measurement based on terahertz attenuated total reflection spectroscopy[J]. Optical Instruments, 2019, 41(6): 8

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    Paper Information

    Category: TESTING TECHNOLOGY

    Received: Apr. 23, 2019

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: May. 19, 2020

    The Author Email: CHEN Lin (linchen@usst.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1005-5630.2019.06.002

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