Near-Field Microwave Tomography of Biological Tissues: Future Perspectives.

This overview shows the mapping of specific visualization techniques, depth assessment of the structure of the underlying tissues and used wavelengths of radiation. Medical imaging is currently one of the most dynamically developing areas of medical science. The main aim of the review is a systematization of information on the current status of the microwave imaging of biological objects, primarily of body tissues.

Cold Argon Athmospheric Plasma for Biomedicine: Biological Effects, Applications and Possibilities.

Currently, plasma medicine is a synthetic direction that unites the efforts of specialists of various profiles. For the successful formation of plasma medicine, it is necessary to solve a large complex of problems, including creating equipment for generating cold plasma, revealing the biological effects of this effect, as well as identifying and justifying the most promising areas of its application. It is known that these biological effects include antibacterial and antiviral activity, the ability to stimulate hemocoagulation, pro-regenerative properties, etc.

Laboratory study of nonlinear trapping of magnetized Langmuir waves inside a density depletion.

The formation of a small-scale plasma density depletion region extended along the ambient magnetic field and caused by the nonlinear interaction of the upper-hybrid plasma waves with a magnetoplasma has been observed under laboratory conditions modeling the ionospheric heating experiments. Plasma waves are trapped inside the depletion due to their specific dispersion properties. The threshold of the nonlinear wave trapping significantly increases in the vicinity of the harmonics of the electron gyrofrequency.

Excitation of quasielectrostatic waves in a laboratory magnetoplasma with weak spatial dispersion.

Short-wavelength quasielectrostatic waves radiated by a small probe in a cold (T(e) approximately 0.5 eV) laboratory magnetoplasma are studied in both the upper-hybrid (UH) and the lower-hybrid (LH) frequency ranges. Measured radiation patterns are characterized by resonance cones in the LH range and in the low-frequency part of the UH range (at omega < 2omega(c)), while in its high-frequency part (at omega > 2omega(c)), a beamed radiation along the external magnetic field is observed.