PUBLISHED PAPERS AND PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Published papers

A.Doria, G.P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale
Free electron broad-band THz radiator
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A483 461-465 (2002)

M. R. Scarfì, M. Romanò, R. Di Pietro, O. Zeni
A.Doria, G. P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, A. Lai, G. Campurra, D. Coniglio, M. D'Arienzo
THz exposure of whole blood for the study of biological effects on human lymphocytes
Jour. of Biol. Phys. 29, 171, (2003)

E. Giovenale, M. D'Arienzo, A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, A. Lai, G. Messina, D. Piccinelli
Absorption and diffusion measurements of biological samples using a THz Free Electron Laser
Jour. of Biol. Phys. 29, 159 (2003)

A.Doria, G. P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale1, G. Messina, A. Lai, A. Ramundo-Orlando, V. Sposato, M. D'Arienzo, A. Perrotta, M. Romanò, M. Sarti, M. R. Scarfì, I. Spassovsky, O. Zeni
THz radiation studies on biological systems at the ENEA FEL Facility
Infrared Phys. & Techn. 45, 339 (2004)

Fahmy, K.
FTIR- and fluorescence-spectroscopic analyses of receptor G-protein coupling in photoreception
Cur. Org. Chem. 6, 1259.1284 (2002)

E. Grosse
THz radiation from FELs and its potential for cell and tissue studies
Phys. Med. Biol. 47 (2002)

Landau, E., J. Navarro, K. Fahmy,
Receptor-dependent G protein activation in lipidic cubic phase
Biopolymers / Biospectroscopy 67, 167-177 (2002).

Lehman, N., G. K. Aradhyam, K. Fahmy,
Suramin affects coupling of rhodopsin to transducin
Biophys. J. 82, 793-802 (2002)

Th. Dekorsy, V.A. Yakovlev, W. Seidel, M. Helm, and F. Keilmann
Infrared-Phonon-Polariton Resonance of the Nonlinear Susceptibility in GaAs
Physical Review Letters 90, 055508 (2003)

W. Seidel, H. Foerstendorf, K.H. Heise, R. Nicolai, A. Schamlott, J.M. Ortega, F. Glotin, R. Prazeres
Infrared characterization of environmental samples by pulsed photothermal spectroscopy
The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics 25, 39-43 (2004)

J.A. Piest
Dynamics of matrix isolated molecules; FZR report, January 2004

S. Mair, B. Gompf, M. Dressel
``Microspectroscopy and Imaging in the THz Range Using Coherent CW Radiation''
Physics in Medicine and Biology 47, 3719 (2002)

A. Matei, M. Dressel
``Experimental Determination of the Far-Infrared Optical Properties of Biological Matter in Aqueous Solution''
Journal of Biological Physics 29, 101 (2003)

S. Mair, B. Gompf, M. Dressel,
``Spatial and Spectral Behavior of the Optical Near field Studied by a Terahertz Near-Field Spectrometer''
Applied Physics Letters 84, 1219 (2004)

Z. Kollia, A. C. Cefalas, S. Kobe and Z. Samardzija
Photodissociation dynamics of DNA bases, E. Sarantopoulou,
Journal of Biological Physics 29, 149-158 (2003).

Ruth M.Woodward, Vincent P.Wallace, Richard J. Pye, Bryan E. Cole, Donald D. Arnone, Edmund H. Linfield and Michael Pepper
J Invest Dermatol 120,72 -78, (2003).

P.F. Taday, I. W. Bradley, D. Arnone
Terahertz pulse spectroscopy of biological materials: L-glutamic acid
Jour. Biol. Phys. 29, 109 (2003)

Gray and Clothier (2001) Toxicology in Vitro 15, 427 - 431.

Clothier, R.H. and Bourne, N.
Effects of THz exposure on human primary keratinocyte differentiation and viability
Journal of Biological Physics 29, 179 (2003)

B. Fischer, M. Walther, M. Hoffmann, D. Turchinovich, and P. Uhd Jepsen,
"Amorphous and crystalline plastics for THz applications"
in preparation for J. Polymer Science (2004)

B. Fischer, M. Hoffmann, G. Modjesch, H. Helm, and P. Uhd Jepsen
"Chemical recognition of crystalline compounds from their free induction decay at THz-frequencies''
submitted to Applied Optics (2004)

B. Fischer, D. Turchinovich, and P. Uhd Jepsen
"Dynamic range of absorption measurements with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy"
submitted to Optics Letters (2004)

P. Uhd Jepsen, B. Fischer, and D. Turchinovich
"Dielectric properties of blood components in the far infrared", in preparation (2004)
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Conferences:

• G.P. Gallerano, on behalf of the THz-BRIDGE Consortium "THz-BRIDGE: A European project for the study of the interaction of THz radiation with biological systems" - paper presented at 8th FEL Users Workshop, 20 -24 August 2001, Darmstadt (D) & at International Workshop on Infrared Microscopy, 11 -14 September 2001, Porquerolles (F)

• G.P. Gallerano, "THz-BRIDGE: a European project for the study of the interaction of Terahertz radiation with biological systems" - COST-281 Meeting, Rome, May 2-5 , 2002

• E. Giovenale, "The THz-BRIDGE project" 3rd GR-I Conference, Patras (Greece), September 5-8, 2002

• A.Doria, A.Coniglio: Near field microscopy devices in the THz spectral region for biological investigations. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• M. D'Arienzo, A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, A. Lai, G. Messina, D. Piccinelli: Absorption and diffusion measurements of biological samples using a THz Free Electron Laser. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• M. D'Arienzo, A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, A. Lai, A. Ramundo-Orlando: Studies on Cell Membrane Model functionality: an experimental set-up for liposomes irradiation. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, I. Spassowsky: Broad band FEL Terahertz radiators. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• M. R. Scarfì, M. Romanò, R. Di Pietro, O. Zeni, A.Doria, G. P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, A. Lai, G. Campurra, D. Coniglio, M. D'Arienzo: THz exposure of whole blood for the study of biological effects on human lymphocytes. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop, Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002:

• A.Doria, G.P. Gallerano, E.Giovenale, G. Messina, I Spassovsky: FEL-CATS: a tunable source of coherent THz radiation (invited). WIRMS 2003 - "International workshop on infrared microscopy and spectroscopy with accelerator based sources", 8-11 July 2003, Lake Tahoe (USA). 1

• A.Doria, G. P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, A. Lai, A. Ramundo-Orlando, V. Sposato, M. D'Arienzo, A. Perrotta, M. Romanò, M. Sarti, M. R. Scarfì, O. Zeni : THz radiation studies on biological systems at the ENEA FEL Facility. 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Terahertz Electronics (THz2003) September 24th - 26th 2003 - Sendai , Japan

• G.P. Gallerano, A.Doria, E.Giovenale, G. Messina, I Spassovsky: Long wavelength THz compact Free Electron Lasers (invited). The 28th Int. Conf. on Infrared and Millimeter Waves (IRMMW2003) - Sept. 29th - Oct. 2nd 2003 -Otsu, Japan

• G. D'Inzeo, M. D'Arienzo, A. Doria, G. P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, M. Sarti: On The Electromagnetic Absorption From Whole Blood Exposed To THz Radiation. EBEA 2003 - 6th International Congress of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA) 13-15 Nov 2003 - Budapest, Hungary

• M. D'Arienzo, A. Doria, G. P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, A. Ramundo-Orlando: Carbonic Anhydrase loaded Liposomes irradiated with THz. EBEA 2003 - 6th International Congress of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA) 13-15 Nov 2003 - Budapest, Hungary

• Th.Dekorsy, E.Grosse, M.Helm, W.Seidel, D.Wohlfarth, A.Wolf, R.Wünsch: A Transport and Diagnostic System for the IR Beam of ELBE. 24th Int. Conf on Free Electron Lasers, Argonne (USA) , 2002

• Nicole Lehmann* and Karim Fahmy: FTIR-spectroscopic investigation of protein conformational changes and drug action in signaling by a g-protein-coupled receptor. International THz-Bridge Workshop, Capri (Italy), 2002

• K.Fahmy, G.Furlinski, P.Gippner, E.Grosse, H.Piest, W.Seidel, M.Szepan, D.Wohlfarth, A.Wolf, R.Wünsch: Properties and Planned Use of the Intense THz Radiation from ELBE at Dresden-Rossendorf. International THz-Bridge Workshop, Capri (Italy), 2002

• W. Seidel, P. Evtushenko, P. Gippner, E. Grosse, R. Jainsch, D. Oepts, M. Sobiella, D. Wohlfarth, A. Wolf, U. Wolf, R. Wünsch, B. Wustmann: The Optical Resonator of the IR-FEL at ELBE. 25th Int. Conf on Free Electron Lasers, (Tzukuba/Japan), 2003

• M. Tecimer, D. Oepts, R. Wünsch, A. Gover: Study of Partial-Waveguide rf-Linac FELs for Intense THz-Pulse Generation. 25th Int. Conf on Free Electron Lasers, (Tzukuba/Japan), 2003, NIM A

• W. Seidel, H. Foerstendorf, K.H. Heise, J.M. Ortega, F. Glotin, R. Prazeres: Infrared Characterization of Environmental Samples by Photothermal Beam Deflection using a Free Electron Laser. 25th Int. Conf on Free Electron Lasers, (Tzukuba/Japan), 2003

• Avital Korenstein-Ilan, Avi Gover and Rafi Korenstein: Genomic stability following exposure of human lymphocytes to THz radiation". International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• Avital Korenstein-Ilan, Alexander Barbul, Alon Eliran, Avi Gover, Yael Eshet, Eli Jerby and Rafi Korenstein: "Induction of Aneuploidy and changes in replication patterns by electromagnetic fields". 1st Conference on Aneuploidy and Cancer- Clinical and Experimental Aspects, Oakland, California, USA January 23-26, 2004

• Alexander Barbul, Alon Eliran, Avi Gover, and Avital Korenstein-Ilan "Elevation in genomic instability following exposure of cells to non-ionizing THz radiation" Rafi Korenstein,. 1st Conference on Aneuploidy and Cancer- Clinical and Experimental Aspects, Oakland, California, USA January 23-26, 2004

• S. Mair B. Gompf and M. Dressel: "Near-Field Spectroscopy in the frequency range from 30 GHz to 1.5 THz". International Workshop on Infrared Microscopy, 11 -14 September 2001, Porquerolles (F)

• S. Mair, B. Gompf and M. Dressel: "Microspectrometry and Imaging in the THz range using coherent CW radiation" - presented at: BISAT 2001 Conference on Biomedical Imaging, 30 November - 1 December 2001, Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Regensburg (D), March 2002, Forum Photonics BW: Moderne Optik, Aktuelle Trends aus der Grundlagenforschung, Stuttgart (D), July 2002

• A. Matei and M. Dressel "Far Infrared Spectroscopy of Biological Material": International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002:International Conference on Low-Energy Electrodynamics in Solids (LEES 02), Montauk (U.S.A.) October 2002

• S. Mair, B. Gompf, M. Dressel "Near field spectroscopy in the frequency range from 30 GHz to 1.5 THz", Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Dresden (Germany), March 2003

• A. Matei, N. Drchko, B. Gompf, M. Dressel :"Far-infrared spectroscopy of alpha amino acids". Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Regensburg (Germany), March 2004

• W. Mäntele: Infrared Spectroscopy used to Probe Proteins and Biological Membranes: What do we learn from the Mid-IR and the Far-IR. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop, Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• Z. Kollia, E. Sarantopoulou, A. C. Cefalas: Damaging DNA bases by radiation over a wide spectral range. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop, Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• P.F. Taday, V. Wallace, R.M. Woodward, D. Arnone: Terahertz Spectroscopy of skin. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• Clothier, R.H. and Bourne, N, J.: Effects on Human Primary Keratinocyte Differentiation and Viability induced by THz exposure. International THz-BRIDGE Workshop Capri, Italy - September 29 to October 2, 2002

• P. Jepsen et al.: "Biological applications of pulsed electromagnetic radiation in the far infrared". 8th European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (ECAMPS VIII), 6-10 July 2004, Rennes, France

• P. Jepsen et al.: "Vibrational spectroscopy of biomolecular crystals in the terahertz range". Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, 22-26 March 2004, München, Germany

• P. Jepsen: "Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy". Terahertz Workshop 2004, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, 17 February 2004, Freiburg, Germany