The Terahertz BioPhotonics Group |

The research projects in our group are focused on the invention of new terahertz emission, detection and imaging technologies and their applications in biophotonics, medical imaging, non-destructive testing, material characterization and stand-off detection of chemicals. Our work spans electro-optic theory development, modeling, instrumentation and imaging signal processing techniques. These projects are sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Coulter Foundation and the Boeing Company. The lab is directed by Dr. Hassan Arbab, and is located in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook. Before moving to Stony Brook, our group was part of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington (APL-UW).

January 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Omar Osman for successfully defending his dissertation titled " Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy for Corneal Diseases and In Vivo Burn Diagnosis" We had a fantastic lab celebration at Basil restaurant, one of the lab favorites :).

May 2020

Congratulations to Arjun, Tim and Yan for successfully defending and graduating with their Masters degrees. Best of luck in your next chapters!

March 2020

Congratulations to Kuangyi for publishing his first journal paper, entitled "Terahertz time-domain polarimetry (THz-TDP) based on the spinning E-O sampling technique: determination of precision and calibration" in the Optics Express journal. You can read more on his...

January 2020

Congratulations to Omar for having successfully passed his proposal exam and officially advancing to PhD Candidacy. Congratulations to Andrew and Omar for publishing their research results in a recent paper, entitled "Investigation of water diffusion dynamics in...

October 2019

Congratulations to Omar for receiving one of the best student poster awards at the 2019 Carnegie Melon Forum on Biomedical Engineering for his paper on "Terahertz Pulsed Imaging for burn depth determination in an in vivo porcine scald model," where he and his...

May 2019

Congratulations to Omar for publishing his first journal paper, entitled "Mitigating the effects of granular scattering using cepstrum analysis in terahertz time-domain spectral imaging" in PLoS ONE. You can read more on his research here.

March 2019

Congratulations to Omar and Andrew for receiving one of the best student poster awards at the 2019 Optical Terahertz Science and Technology (OTST) conference for their paper on "A THz-TDS study of dehydration dynamics of corneal phantoms." For more information, please...

Terahertz reflectometry of burn wounds in a rat model

M. Hassan Arbab, Trevor C. Dickey, Dale P. Winebrenner, Antao Chen, Mathew B. Klein, and Pierre D. Mourad Abstract We present sub-millimeter wave reflectometry of an experimental rat skin burn model obtained by the Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS)...

A Noninvasive Terahertz Assessment of 2nd and 3rd Degree Burn Wounds

M. Hassan Arbab, Dale Winebrenner, Trevor C. Dickey, Matthew B. Klein, Antao Chen, and Pierre D. Mourad Abstract: We demonstrate the application of THz-TDS in characterizing the severity of burn injuries in a live animal model. 2nd and 3rd degree burns were studied...

Terahertz spectroscopy for the assessment of burn injuries in vivo

Terahertz spectroscopy for the assessment of burn injuries in vivo M. Hassan Arbab ; Dale P. Winebrenner ; Trevor C. Dickey ; Antao Chen ;Matthew B. Klein ; Pierre D. Mourad J. Biomed. Opt. 18(7), 077004 (Jul 16, 2013). doi:10.1117/1.JBO.18.7.077004 History: Received...