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Skin cancer diagnostic tool based on micromachined interface for high-resolution THz spectroscopy (MTSSC)

This project focuses on developing a micromachined interface for microwave/THz characterization of skin tissue, mainly for distinguishing skin anomalies from healthy tissue and for distinguishing malign skin tumors from benign ones.

Project start: 2011-03-02
Project end: 2014-03-01

Collaboration partners (with contact person):

  • KTH-EE-MST-RF MEMS (Joachim Oberhammer)
  • Uppsala University (UU) - Signals and Systems (Anders Rydberg)
  • Karolinska Institutet (KI) - Division of Dermatology and Venereology (Lennart Emtestam)
  • Optiga AB (Lars Tenerz)

This project is coordinated by KTH.

People involved at KTH

Fritzi Töpfer
Sergey Dudorov
Joachim Oberhammer (project coordinator)

Project web pages

MTSSC

Funding

Funding agency: VINNOVA
Funding programme: Framtidens hälsa 2009 (Future health care programme 2009)
Total project funding, coordinated by KTH: SEK 5 000 000
Project funding for KTH: SEK 3 000 000