Sub-parts per billion detection of trace volatile chemicals in human breath using Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ross, Brian M ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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PHNOM PENH BAT VIRUS;

EID: 59349111610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-41     Document Type: Article

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