테라헤르츠 의료 진단, 치료, 하드웨어 및 재료 : 시장과 기술(2026-2046년)

Summary

Terahertz was the medical Wild West. The Terahertz Gap at 0.1-10THz was where neither radio frequency nor optical components worked well and the benefits were unclear. Now it is more like a gold rush, with new materials such as graphene in plasmonic mode working best at those frequencies. Other 2D materials, tertiary 3-5 compounds, co-polymers and more are in hot pursuit. Resulting sensors, imagers, spectrometers and even radiation therapy equipment are being deployed into over 200,000 hospitals and medical research centers and pharmaceutical production lines worldwide 2026-2046. Medical and allied THz equipment sales will grow over eleven-fold over that timeframe to $8.8 billion in 2046. There is upside potential on this forecast if the identified challenges are overcome.

A new Zhar Research report details your opportunities. This 374-page, commercially-oriented, "Terahertz Medical Diagnosis, Therapy, Hardware, Materials: Markets, Technology 2026-2046".

Leading author Dr Peter Harrop, CEO of Zhar Research says, "Most importantly, using THz facilitates increasingly improves detection and treatment of cancers but there is much more in the pipeline, including the equipment becoming portable, its use in design and production of new pharmaceuticals and medical radioisotopes, dentistry and veterinary uses and previously-impossible diagnosis and therapy. To reveal all your opportunities, the report includes these closely allied topics."

Old news is misleading in this now fast-moving topic so the report is intensely focussed on the flood of research advances 2025-6 and gaps in the market given the rather limited number of THz equipment suppliers for what will be needed.

The Executive Summary and Conclusions (55 pages) is self-sufficient for those with limited time. See 11 SWOT appraisals 16 key conclusions, 21 forecast lines 2026-2046 with graphs and explanation plus the main infograms.

Report Statistics:

• Chapters: 10
• SWOT appraisals: 11
• Key conclusions: 16
• Forecast lines to 2046: 21
• New Infograms: 27
• Companies: : 64
• Pages: 374

Table of Contents

1. Executive summary and conclusions

• 1.1 Purpose and scope of this report
• 1.2 Core and peripheral topics involving THz medical and allied technology
• 1.3 Report coverage infogram
• 1.4 Methodology and focus of this analysis
• 1.5 Medically-useful THz characteristics appearing in this report
• 1.6 Healthcare applications of THz technology
• 1.7 Key general conclusions: applications, devices, systems with 11 SWOT appraisals
• 1.8 Four general SWOT appraisals
  • 1.8.1 SWOT appraisal of THz technology
  • 1.8.2 SWOT appraisal of THz use in the medical and allied sectors
  • 1.8.3 SWOT appraisal of THz disease diagnosis and treatment
  • 1.8.4 SWOT appraisal of 6G adding THz, near infrared and visible frequencies
• 1.9 Seven SWOT appraisals of medically-useful THz hardware
  • 1.9.1 SWOT appraisal of THz biosensors
  • 1.9.2 SWOT appraisal of THz medical imaging
  • 1.9.3 SWOT appraisal of THz medical spectroscopy
  • 1.9.4 SWOT appraisal of THz gyrotrons
  • 1.9.5 SWOT appraisal of THz cable waveguides
  • 1.9.6 SWOT appraisal of THz medical lasers
  • 1.9.7 SWOT appraisal for metamaterials, metasurfaces, metadevices
• 1.10 Conclusions concerning THz medical device materials with analysis pie chart, infogram
  • 1.10.1 Five conclusions
  • 1.10.2 Terahertz Gap with useful materials and device capabilities: 3 infograms
  • 1.10.3 Dissipation factor variation for 20 material families 0.1-1THz
  • 1.10.4 Components-in-a-box (discrete boards, antennas etc.) trends to THz smart material integration
• 1.11 THz medical hardware roadmaps: technology, deployment, markets 2026-2046
• 1.12 Market forecasts in 21 lines with tables, graphs and explanation 2026-2046
  • 1.12.1 THz hardware market including medical in six lines $ billion 2026-2046
  • 1.12.2 Medical and allied THz hardware market: spectrometry, imaging, other $ billion 2026-2046
  • 1.12.3 THz Medical and allied hardware value market by four regions 2026-2046
  • 1.12.4 Electromagnetic meta-device market $ billion 2025-2045
  • 1.12.5 Electromagnetic meta-device market $ billion 2025-2046 by application segment
  • 1.12.6 6G RIS value market $ billion: active vs four semi-passive categories by frequency 2026-2046 with explanation

2. Terahertz in context, materials, devices and enabling technologies

• 2.1 Overview
  • 2.1.1 THz definition, characteristics, biological impact, medical, and allied applications
  • 2.1.2 Challenges being overcome, THz gap,, trend to smart materials
• 2.2 Choices of THz material and component
  • 2.2.1 THz generation: challenges, techniques, research advances 2025-6
  • 2.2.2 THz detection and tuning materials and devices
  • 2.2.3 Low-loss THz dielectrics: permittivity and dissipation factor vs THz frequency for 20 material families
• 2.3 Terahertz laminar constructs: antennas, spintronics, plasmonics
  • 2.3.1 Overview with recent examples
  • 2.3.2 Terahertz antennas: challenges, infogram, research advances 2025-6
• 2.4 THz spintronics and plasmonics
• 2.5 Enabling technologies: metamaterials and metasurfaces
  • 2.5.1 Overview
  • 2.5.2 SWOT appraisal for metamaterials and metasurfaces
  • 2.5.3 Research advances 2025-6
• 2.6 THz 2D materials for medical and allied applications
  • 2.6.1 Overview
  • 2.6.2 Research advances 2025-6
• 2.7 THz lasers and other coherent sources
  • 2.7.1 Uniques, medical and allied applications, infogram
  • 2.7.2 Technologies
  • 2.7.3 Materials opportunities
  • 2.7.4 THz laser research advances 2025-6
  • 2.7.5 Chip-scale, electrically-tunable coherent THz source
• 2.8 Refractive THz lenses, quasi-optics for medical imaging, spectroscopy, other

3. THz physiological effects and exposure assessment

• 3.1 Overview
• 3.2 THz physiological effects thermal and non-thermal
• 3.3 Effects of terahertz radiation on neuronal firing characteristics and rodent behavior
• 3.4 THz exposure assessment

4. THz medical diagnosis and treatment

• 4.1 Overview
  • 4.1.1 General
  • 4.1.2 SWOT appraisal of THz disease treatment
• 4.2 THz radiation therapy: rapid research advances 2025-6
  • 4.2.1 General with example of stroke patients
  • 4.2.2 Treating anxiety and neuronal degenerative diseases
  • 4.2.3 THz diagnosis and treatment of head and neck diseases
  • 4.2.4 Neuromodulation technique for intervening or treating neuronal degenerative diseases
  • 4.2.5 Fentanyl overdose reversal
• 4.3 Detection of Bacteremia and In Situ Elimination
• 4.4 Terahertz endoscopy advances through 2025-6
• 4.5 Precise stimulation and wireless control in retinal, cochlear, cardiac implants in 2025
• 4.6 Latest activities of some manufacturers of appropriate THz equipment
  • 4.6.1 TeraSense USA
  • 4.6.2 Teraview UK

5. THz imaging for healthcare

• 5.1 THz imaging basics, medical chemical microscope, super resolution imaging
• 5.2 SWOT appraisal of THz imaging
• 5.3 Other THz imaging advances 2025-6
  • 5.3.1 Nanoscopy
  • 5.3.2 Holography
  • 5.3.3 Terahertz scanning near-field optical microscopy
  • 5.3.4 THz imaging for skin diagnostics
  • 5.3.5 Metasurface-enhanced THz imaging for glioblastoma
  • 5.3.6 Pharmaceutical tablet optimisation
  • 5.3.7 Other relevant research advances not specifically medical at this stage
• 5.4 Ten leading manufacturers of THz imaging systems

6. THz spectroscopy for healthcare

• 6.1 THz spectroscopy and spectrum analysers
  • 6.1.1 Spectroscopy basics
  • 6.1.2 Spectrum analyzers
  • 6.1.3 Example: Trace gas signatures in exhaled breath of a human smoker detected by THz
  • 6.1.4 Example: Terahertz Spectroscopic Analysis in Protein Dynamics
  • 6.1.5 Example: THz spectra of amino acids, biopolymers, serotonin, others
• 6.2 SWOT appraisal of THz medical spectroscopy
• 6.3 THz super-resolution spectroscopy capability, toolkit
  • 6.3.1 Capability
  • 6.3.2 Toolkit
• 6.4 Other THz super-resolution spectroscopy advances through 2025-6
• 6.5 Six THz spectrometer manufacturers

7. THz sensors for healthcare

• 7.1 Basics
  • 7.1.1 Biomimetics, inputs, outputs, anatomy, smart sensors
  • 7.1.2 THz (far infrared) sensors in context of infrared sensors generally
  • 7.1.3 SWOT appraisal of THz biosensors
• 7.2 Some major advances in THz medical and allied sensing
  • 7.2.1 Cancer detection: breast cancer, brain tumour
  • 7.2.2 Blood sugar detection
  • 7.2.3 Illegal drugs and hazardous gases
  • 7.2.4 Pesticide detection in food
  • 7.2.5 Phenylalanine and other amino acids in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics
  • 7.2.6 Ultrasensitive sensing of trace proteins: Serum amyloid AA amyloidosis
  • 7.2.7 Urine bilrubin detection
• 7.3 Other THz sensors for medical and allied applications: many major advances 2025-6

8. THz gyrotrons for medical spectroscopy and manufacture of new medical isotopes

• 8.1 Overview
  • 8.1.1 Uses and benefits
  • 8.1.2 SWOT appraisal of THz gyrotrons
• 8.2 THz gyrotrons for spectroscopy: advances in 2025-6
• 8.3 Other research through 2025-6
• 8.4 SHINE Technologies USA
• 8.5 Kyoto Fusioneering Japan

9. THz waveguides for medical diagnostics, sensing, sample inspection, spectroscopy

• 9.1 Overview
  • 9.1.1 Definition, purpose
  • 9.1.2 Use in medical spectroscopy and exploring biological samples
  • 9.1.3 Basic types of THz waveguides
  • 9.1.4 Materials opportunities
• 9.2 SWOT appraisal of terahertz cable waveguides
• 9.3 Challenges, innovations and other 2025-6 advances
• 9.4 Manufacturing polymer THz waveguides including cable in long reels and 3D printing and 2025-6 advances
• 9.5 Manufacturers and suppliers of medical waveguides or their parts

10. Planned 6G Communication at THz frequencies for healthcare

• 10.1 Overview with SWOT appraisal
• 10.2 Evolution of 6G 2030-2046 and the place of THz
• 10.3 6G may enable genuine Internet of Things benefitting healthcare
  • 10.3.1 Hospital environment, remote healthcare and disaster response improvement
  • 10.3.2 6G architecture and benefits for healthcare including smart hospitals
  • 10.3.3 Mobile health multimedia applications improvement
  • 10.3.4 AI in 6G may enable genuine Internet of Things benefitting healthcare
  • 10.3.5 6G integration of lifestyle and environment in real-time for hyper-personalized medicine
• 10.4 Materials opportunities: Analysis of 245 latest THz and other optical 6G-related research
• 10.5 Printing options for 6G hardware by frequency of operation
• 10.6 Other 6G Communications THz research advances through 2025-6
• 10.7 ZTE China