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<p>The purpose of this review is to highlight the advances in technology and understanding in the field of breath analysis for medical diagnosis. A critical review of the methods of breath collection, treatment, and analysis is given, highlighting the problems facing the field and areas where promising advancement has been made. One particular area of interest is centered around electronic noses, ideally, portable devices which aim to mimic biological olifactory systems in analysing gases to produce odor fingerprints. Furthermore, recent work has shown it is possible to modify the basic sensor materials to both improve their performance, increase their tolerance to factors such as water vapour interferance which often leave the sensor system de-sensitized to the gaseous biomarkers, and enhance their selectivity. It will be shown how it is possible to accurately quantify concentrations of VOC’s and make disease diagnosis from analysis of the collected data which compare favorably with traditional medical diagnostic techniques.</p>
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The purpose of this review is to highlight the advances in technology and understanding in the field of breath analysis for medical diagnosis. A critical review of the methods of breath collection, treatment, and analysis is given, highlighting the problems facing the field and areas where promising advancement has been made. One particular area of interest is centered around electronic noses, ideally, portable devices which aim to mimic biological olifactory systems in analysing gases to produce odor fingerprints. Furthermore, recent work has shown it is possible to modify the basic sensor materials to both improve their performance, increase their tolerance to factors such as water vapour interferance which often leave the sensor system de-sensitized to the gaseous biomarkers, and enhance their selectivity. It will be shown how it is possible to accurately quantify concentrations of VOC’s and make disease diagnosis from analysis of the collected data which compare favorably with traditional medical diagnostic techniques.

Breath Analysis for Medical Diagnosis

Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratories

http://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/staff/staff.php?r.binions@qmul.ac.uk

School of Engineering and Materials Science

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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The purpose of this review is to highlight the advances in technology and understanding in the field of breath analysis for medical diagnosis. A critical...

Breath Analysis for Medical Diagnosis

Published Online: Jun 01, 2012

Page range: 401 - 440

Accepted: May 08, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-488

Keywords
Sensors, Breath Analysis, Electronic Nose, Cancer Detection

© 2012 Darryl Hill et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Breath Analysis for Medical Diagnosis

Published Online: Jun 01, 2012

Page range: 401 - 440

Accepted: May 08, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-488

KeywordsSensors, Breath Analysis, Electronic Nose, Cancer Detection

© 2012 Darryl Hill et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Sensors, Breath Analysis, Electronic Nose, Cancer Detection