| Acronym | Meaning |
| RIA | Relative Ion Abundance |
| RUS | Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy |
| ULIRG | Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy |
| ERCIM | European Research Consortium For Informatics And Mathematics |
| CTGF | Connective Tissue Growth Factor |
| HRS | Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering |
| PAWS | Portable Acoustic Wave Sensor |
| LPAS | Long Pathlength Absorbance Spectroscopy |
| OSCC | Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |