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Emma MacPherson's Terahertz Research Group

Publications by Emma's THz group

Recent Journal Publications

  1. 'Past, present and future of in vivo THz skin sensing', Agrima Agarwal and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, JPhys Photonics 8(1), 2026,
  2. 'All-fibre-coupled terahertz single-pixel imaging for biomedical applications', Sen Mou, Rayko Stantchev, Sonal Saxena, Huiliang Ou, Shreeya Rane, Sophie Pain, John D Murphy, Euan Hendry, James Lloyd-Hughes and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Nature Communications 17(1), 2026,
  3. 'Markerless Pose Estimation and Tracking on Facial Regions for In Vivo Robot-Assisted Terahertz Sensing', Shruti Chakraborty, Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Anubhav Dogra, Dominic Jones, Agrima Agarwal, Pietro Valdastri and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, PP(99):1-1, 2026,
  4. 'Multi-layered model for simulating the in vivo terahertz response of human skin', Benjamin Page, Jacob Young, Agrima Agarwal, Xiangyu Guo, Joseph Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Biomedical Optics Express 16(12):5197-5209, 2025, DOI: 10.1364/BOE.579637
  5. 'Robotically Controlled Terahertz Probe for In Vivo Skin Evaluation: Imaging with the PicoBot', Jacob Young, Agrima Agarwal, Benjamin Page, Anubhav Dogra, Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Joseph Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 46(6), 2025, DOI: 10.1007/s10762-025-01055-7
  6. 'In vivo Terahertz Sensing of Skin Cancer Patients', Jacob Young, Benjamin Page, Arturo I. Hernandez鈥怱errano, Joseph Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Advanced Photonics Research, 6, 2400195, 2025,
  7. 'Towards autonomous robotic THz-based in vivo skin sensing: the PicoBot', Anubhav Dogra, Dominic Jones, Arturo Ignacio Hernandez Serrano, Shruti Chakraborty, Jacob Young, Benjamin Page, Joseph Hardwicke, Pietro Valdastri and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Scientific Reports 15(1):4568, 2025,
  8. 'Applying Frequency-Wavelet Domain Deconvolution to in Vivo Terahertz Measurements of Skin Conditions', Benjamin Page, Jacob Young, Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Joseph Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, PP(99):1-9, 2025,
  9. 'Developing Hydration Maps of Polymer Latex Film Formation Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy', Gon莽alo Costa, Emily Brogden, Jacob Young, Huiliang Ou, Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Rayko I. Stantchev, Stefan A. F. Bon and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Langmuir 40(47), 2024,
  10. 'Accurate reconstruction of terahertz spectral images with enhanced spatial resolution via complex mapping', Ting Zhu, Hao Chen, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Xuequan Chen and Fang Guangyou, Optics Express 32(18):31657-31671, 2024,
  11. 'Variation of skin hydration profile with biophysical factors and lifestyle revealed by in vivo terahertz sensing', Xuefei Ding, A. I. Hernandez-Serrano, Jacob Young and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Biomedical Optics Express 15(9):5180-5198, 2024,
  12. 'In vivo terahertz sensing of psoriasis and eczema patients', Jacob Young, Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Joseph Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Scientific Reports 14(1), 2024,
  13. 'Effect of transdermal drug delivery patches on the stratum corneum: in vivo inspection with a handheld terahertz probe', Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Xuefei Ding, Gon莽alo Costa, Gabit E. Nurumbetov, David M Haddleton and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Biomedical Optics Express 15(7):4206-420, 2024,
  14. 'Terahertz probe for real time in vivo skin hydration evaluation', Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Xuefei Ding, Jacob Young, Gon莽alo Costa, Anubhav Dogra, Joseph Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Advanced Photonics Nexus 3(1):016012-016012, 2024,
  15. 'Simultaneous measurement of orthogonal terahertz fields via an emission multiplexing scheme', Huiliang Ou, Rayko Stantchev, Xuequan Chen, Thierry Blu, Mykhaylo Semtsiv, William Ted Masselink, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano, Gon莽alo Costa, Jacob Young, Nishtha Chopra, James Lloyd-Hughes and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Optics Express 32(4):5567-5581, 2024,
  16. 'Electrically Tunable Si-Based THz Photomodulator Using Dielectric/Polymer Surface Gating', Xavier Romain, Peter R Wilshaw, Rayko Stantchev, Tina Miao, Sen Mou, Tim Niewelt, Shona Mcnab, Sophie Pain, Nicholas Grant, Ruy Sebastian Bonilla, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson and John D Murphy, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, PP(99):1-8, 2024,

  17. 鈥Monitoring the Terahertz Response of Skin Beneath Transdermal Drug Delivery Patches Using Sparse Deconvolution鈥, Xavier E. Ramirez Barker, Xavier E. Ramirez Barker, Rayko Stantchev, Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Gabit E. Nurumbetov, David M Haddleton and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology PP(99):1-9, 2023,

  18. 鈥Quantitative evaluation of transdermal drug delivery patches on human skin with in vivo THz-TDS鈥, Xuefei Ding, Gon莽alo Costa, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano, Rayko I. Stantchev, Gabit E. Nurumbetov, David M Haddleton and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Biomedical Optics Express, 14(3): 1146-1158, 2023

  19. 鈥Broadband Graphene-Based Electro-Optic Chiral Polarization Conversion for Terahertz Pulse Shaping鈥, Chen Zefeng, Xuequan Chen, Li Tao, Kun Chen, Rui Zhang ,Mingzhu Long, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson and J.B. Xu, ACS Photonics 9(11), 2022,

  20. 鈥An introduction to terahertz time-domain spectroscopic ellipsometry鈥, Xuequan Chen and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, APL Photonics, 7(7):071101, 2022,

  21. 鈥Simulated and Experimental Verification for a Terahertz Specific Finite Rate of Innovation Signal Processing Method鈥, Xavier E. Ramirez Barker, Rayko I. Stanchev, Arturo I. Hernandez Serrano and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Sensors, 22(9), 2022,

  22. 鈥Monitoring the Effect of Transdermal Drug Delivery Patches on the Skin Using Terahertz Sensing鈥, Hannah Lindley-Hatcher, Jiarui Wang, Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Joseph Hardwicke, Gabit E. Nurumbetov, David M Haddleton and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Pharmaceutics, 13(12):2052, 2021,

  23. 鈥Rapid Imaging of Pulsed Terahertz Radiation with Spatial Light Modulators and Neural Networks鈥, Rayko Ivanov Stantchev, Kaidi Li and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, ACS Photonics 8(11), 2021,

  24. 鈥Recent Advances in the Development of Materials for Terahertz Metamaterial Sensing鈥, Suling Shen, Xudong Liu, Yao-chun Shen, Junle Qu, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Xunbin Wei and Yiwen Sun, Advanced Optical Materials, 10(1), 2021,

  25. 鈥Extraction of Thickness and Water-Content Gradients in Hydrogel-Based Water-Backed Corneal Phantoms Via Submillimeter-Wave Reflectometry鈥, Aleksi Tamminen, Mariangela Baggio, Irina Nefedova, Qiushuo Sun, Semyon A. Presnyakov, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Elliot Brown, Vincent Patrick Wallace, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Thaddeus Maloney, Natalia Kravchenko, Mika Salkola, Sophie Deng and Zachary Taylor, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology PP(99):1-1, 2021,

  26. 鈥Submillimeter-Wave Permittivity Measurements of Bound Water in Collagen Hydrogels via Frequency Domain Spectroscopy鈥, Aleksi Tamminen, Mariangela Baggio, Irina Nefedova. Qiushuo Sun, Juha Anttila, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Elliot R. Brown, Vincent Patrick Wallace, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Thaddeus Maloney, Mika Salkola, Sophie Deng and Zachary Taylor, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology PP(99):1-1, 2021,

  27. 鈥Real time THz imaging—opportunities and challenges for skin cancer detection鈥, H. Lindley-Hatcher, Rayko Stantchev, Xuequan Chen, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano, J. Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Applied Physics Letters, 118(23):230501, 2021, DOI:10.1063/5.0055259

  28. 鈥THz Sensing of Human Skin: A Review of Skin Modelling Approaches鈥, Jiarui Wang, Hannah Lindley-Hatcher, Xuequan Chen and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Sensors, 21(11):3624, 2021, DOI:10.3390/s21113624

  29. 鈥Gold nanoparticle enhanced detection of EGFR with a terahertz metamaterial biosensor鈥, Kai Liu, Rui Zhang, Yao Liu, Xuequan Chen, Kaidi Li and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Biomedical Optics Express, 12(3):1559-1567, 2021,

  30. 鈥Deep THz modulation at Fabry-Perot resonances using graphene in periodic microslits鈥, Xudong Liu, Mingyang Jia, Shuting Fan, Rayko Stantchev, Xuequan Chen, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson and Yiwen Sun, Optics Express, 29(4):6199-6208, 2021, DOI:10.1364/OE.413622

  31. 鈥Low cost and long-focal-depth metallic axicon for terahertz frequencies based on parallel-plate-waveguides鈥, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Scientific Reports, 2021,

  32. 鈥Exploiting Complementary Terahertz Ellipsometry Configurations to Probe the Hydration and Cellular Structure of Skin In Vivo鈥, Xuequan Chen, Sarah Sun, Jiarui Wang, Hannah Lindley-Hatcher and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Advanced Photonics Research, 2(1):2170002, 2021,

  33. 鈥Evaluation of in vivo THz Sensing for Assessing Human Skin Hydration鈥, Hannah Lindley-Hatcher, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano, Jiarui Wang, Juan Cebri谩n, Joseph Hardwicke and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, JPhys Photonics, 3(1), 2020,

  34. 鈥In-line evanescent-field-coupled THz bandpass mux/demux fabricated by additive layer manufacturing technology鈥, A. I. Hernandez-Serrano, Simon J. Leigh and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Optics Continuum, 3(9):2407-2414, 2020,

  35. 鈥Classification for Glucose and Lactose Terahertz Spectrums Based on SVM and DNN Methods鈥, Kaidi Li, Xuequan Chen, Rui Zhang and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology PP(99):1-1, 2020,

  36. 鈥Evaluation of transdermal drug delivery using terahertz pulsed imaging鈥, Jiarui Wang, Hannah Lindley-Hatcher, Kai Liu and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Biomedical Optics Express, 11(8):4484-4490, 2020,

  37. 鈥Super Sub-Nyquist Single-Pixel Imaging by Total Variation Ascending Ordering of the Hadamard Basis鈥, Xiao Yu, Rayko Stantchev, F. Yang and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Springer Nature

    Scientific Reports, 10(1), 2020,

  38. 鈥Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector鈥, Rayko Stantchev, Xiao Yu, Thierry Blu and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Nature Communications, 11(1), 2020,

  39. 鈥Objective and efficient terahertz signal denoising by transfer function reconstruction鈥, Xuequan Chen, Sarah Sun, Rayko Stantchev and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, APL Photonics, 5(5):056104, 2020,

  40. 鈥Broadband amplitude, frequency, and polarization splitter for terahertz frequencies using parallel-plate waveguide technology鈥, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano, Daniel M. Mittleman and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Optics Letters, 45(5):1208-1211, 2020,

  41. 鈥Total Internal Reflection Geometry: Exploiting Total Internal Reflection Geometry for Terahertz Devices and Enhanced Sample Characterization鈥, Sarah Sun, Xuequan Chen, Xudong Liu, Rayko Stantchev and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Advanced Optical Materials, 8(3):2070012, 2020,

  42. 鈥A Sensitive and Versatile Thickness Determination Method Based on Non-Inflection Terahertz Property Fitting鈥, Xuequan Chen and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Sensors, 19(19):4118, 2019.

  43. 鈥Highly Efficient Ultra鈥怋roadband Terahertz Modulation Using Bidirectional Switching of Liquid Crystals鈥, Xuequan Chen, Kaidi Li, Rui Zhang, Swadesh Kumar Gupta, Abhishek Kumar Srivastava and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Advanced Optical Materials, 7(24):1901321, 2019,

  44. 鈥A Robust Protocol for In Vivo THz Skin Measurements鈥, Hannah Lindley-Hatcher, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez, Serrano, Sarah Sun, Jiarui Wang, Juan Cebri谩n, Laurent Blasco and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves 40(3), 2019,

  45. 鈥Genetic Algorithm Based Optimization for Terahertz Time-Domain Adaptive Sampling鈥, Kaidi Li, Xuequan Chen, Shuaiqi Shen, Rui Zhang and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology PP(99):1-1, 2019,

  46. 鈥In vivo terahertz imaging to evaluate scar treatment strategies: silicone gel sheeting鈥, Jiarui Wang, Sarah Sun, Rayko Stantchev, Tor Chiu, Anil T. Ahuja and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Biomedical Optics Express, 10(7):3584-3590, 2019,

  47. 鈥Exploiting Total Internal Reflection Geometry for Terahertz Devices and Enhanced Sample Characterization鈥, Sarah Sun, Xuequan Chen, Xudong Liu, Rayko Stantchev and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Advanced Optical Materials, 8(3), 2019,

  48. 鈥Scalable interdigitated photoconductive emitters for the electrical modulation of terahertz beams with arbitrary linear polarization鈥, Connor Mosley, Michael Staniforth, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson and James Lloyd-Hughes, AIP Advances, 9(4):045323, 2019,

  49. 鈥Utilizing multilayer structures to enhance terahertz characterization of thin films ranging from aqueous solutions to histology slides鈥, Sarah Sun, Kai Liu, Xuequan Chen, Xudong Liu, A. I. Hernandez-Serrano and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Optics Letters, 44(9):2149-2152, 2019,

  50. 鈥Design and fabrication of 3-D printed conductive polymer structures for THz polarization control鈥, Arturo Ignacio Hern谩ndez Serrano, Sarah Sun, Elizabeth G. Bishop, Elliott R. Griffiths, Christopher P. Purssell, Simon J. Leigh, James Lloyd-Hughes and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, Optics Express, 27(8):11635-11641, 2019,

  51. 鈥Terahertz Microfluidic Metamaterial Biosensor for Sensitive Detection of Small Volume Liquid Samples鈥, Zhang, Rui & Chen, Qingming & Liu, Kai & Zefeng, Chen & Li, Kaidi & Zhang, Xuming & Xu, J.B. and Pickwell-MacPherson, Emma. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. PP. 1-1., 2019, .

  52. 鈥Editorial: 5G-Based mHealth Bringing Healthcare Convergence to Reality鈥, Yuan-Ting Zhang and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering 12:2-3, 2019,

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