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Alexei Bykhovski

Boris Gelmont

Tatiana Globus

Nathan Swami

Robert M Weikle, Ii

Jerome Ferrance

Arthur Weston Lichtenberger

Aaron Moyer

Ramakrishnan Parthasarathy

Amir Jazaery

Arthur Weston Linchtenberger

Igor Sizov

Ramakrishnan Parthasarthy

Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which comprises causing a determination to be made that a body fluid sample is from a patient with cancer. The determination can be made via analyzing the body fluid sample by sub-THz resonance spectroscopy with absorption determinations being made at a plurality of frequencies between 0.05 and 1.0 THz to show a presence of specific Micro-RNAs as cancer related molecules in the body fluid.

Micro-RNA based diagnoses of ovarian and other cancers via sub-terahertz vibrational spectroscopy

A method and apparatus for enhanced THz radiation coupling to molecules, includes the steps of depositing a test material near the discontinuity edges of a slotted member, and enhancing the THz radiation by transmitting THz radiation through the slots. The molecules of the test material are illuminated by the enhanced THz radiation that has been transmitted through the slots, thereby producing an increased coupling of EM radiation in the THz spectral range to said material. The molecules can be bio-molecules, explosive materials, or species of organisms. The slotted member can be a semiconductor film, a metallic film, in particular InSb, or layers thereof. THz detectors sense near field THz radiation that has been transmitted through said slots and the test material.

Method of local electro-magnetic field enhancement of terahertz (THZ) radiation in sub-wavelength regions and improved coupling of radiation to materials through the use of the discontinuity edge effect

Method of local electro-magnetic field enhancement of terahertz (THz) radiation in sub- wavelength regions and improved coupling of radiation to materials through the use of the discontinuity edge effect

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