The Special Section on Advances in Terahertz Biomedical Science and Applications published as a series throughout JBO Volumes 25-26 (2020-2021). The articles are collected here.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Advances in Terahertz Biomedical Science and Applications

Kirill I. Zaytsev, Vladimir N. Kurlov, Maksim Skorobogatiy, Igor V. Reshetov, and Valery V. Tuchin

Development of oral cancer tissue-mimicking phantom based on polyvinyl chloride plastisol and graphite for terahertz frequencies

Tianmiao Zhang, Ravshanjon Nazarov, Alexey P. Popov, Petr S. Demchenko, Alexander V. Bykov, Roman O. Grigorev, Anna V. Kuzikova, Victoria Y. Soboleva, Dmitrii V. Zykov, Igor V. Meglinski, and Mikhail K. K. Khodzitskiy

In situ terahertz monitoring of an ice ball formation during tissue cryosurgery: a feasibility test

Arsen K. Zotov, Arsenii A. Gavdush, Gleb M. Katyba, Larisa P. Safonova, Nikita V. Chernomyrdin, and Irina N. Dolganova

Dual short wavelength infrared transillumination/reflectance mode imaging for caries detection

Yihua Zhu, Marwa Abdelaziz, Jacob C. Simon, Oanh Le, and Daniel Fried

Terahertz radiation and the skin: a review

Angelina I. Nikitkina, Polina Bikmulina, Elvira R. Gafarova, Nastasia V. Kosheleva, Yuri M. Efremov, Evgeny A. Bezrukov, Denis V. Butnaru, Irina N. Dolganova, Nikita V. Chernomyrdin, Olga P. Cherkasova, Arsenii A. Gavdush, and Peter S. Timashev

Terahertz spectroscopy of diabetic and non-diabetic human blood plasma pellets

Anastasiya A. Lykina,Maksim M. Nazarov, Maria R. Konnikova, Ilia A. Mustafin, Vladimir L. Vaks, Vladimir A. Anfertev, Elena G. Domracheva, Mariya B. Chernyaeva, Yuri V. Kistenev, Denis A. Vrazhnov, Vladimir V. Prischepa, Yulia A. Kononova, Dmitry V. Korolev, Olga P. Cherkasova, Alexander P. Shkurinov, Alina Y. Babenko, and Olga A. Smolyanskaya

Systematic stability testing of insulins as representative biopharmaceuticals using ATR FTIR-spectroscopy with focus on quality assurance

Sven Delbeck and Herbert Michael Heise

Terahertz high-resolution spectroscopy of thermal decomposition gas products of diabetic and non-diabetic blood plasma and kidney tissue pellets

Anastasia A. Lykina, Vladimir A. Anfertev, Elena G. Domracheva, Mariya B. Chernyaeva, Yulia A. Kononova, Yana Toporova, Dmitry V. Korolev, Olga A. Smolyanskaya, and Vladimir L. Vaks

Globally deployed COVID-19 fever screening devices using infrared thermographs consistently normalize high readings to afebrile range

Conor Healy, Zachary Segal, Chris Hinnerichs, Ethan Ace, Derek Ward, and John Honovich

Terahertz scanning of the rabbit cornea with experimental UVB-induced damage: in vivo assessment of hydration and its verification

Elena N. Iomdina, Sergey V. Seliverstov, Kseniya O. Teplyakova, Elena V. Jani, Viktoriia V. Pozdniakova, Olga N. Polyakova, and Gregory N. Goltsman

Terahertz spectroscopy analysis of human corneal sublayers

Lin Ke, Qing Yang Steve Wu, Nan Zhang, Zaifeng Yang, Ericia Pei Wen Teo, Jodhbir S. Mehta, and Yu-Chi Liu

Mid-infrared absorption by soft tissue sarcoma and cell ablation utilizing a mid-infrared interband cascade laser

Eric Larson, Madeline Hines, Munir Tanas, Benjamin Miller, Mitchell Coleman, and Fatima Toor