Pulsed quantum cascade laser-based cavity ring-down spectroscopy for ammonia detection in breath

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 36, 2006, Pages 9230-9237

  Manne, Jagadeeshwari ^a   Sukhorukov, Oleksandr ^a   Jäger, Wolfgang ^a   Tulip, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PATHOLOGY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

AMMONIA DETECTION; BREATH ANALYSIS; GAS ANALYZERS; PEPTIC ULCERS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AMMONIA; BREATH TESTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICROCHEMISTRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 33846885425     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.009230     Document Type: Article

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