One-year time series of investigations of analytes within human breath using ion mobility spectrometry

International Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 141-148

  Bunkowski, Alexander ^a,b   Maddula, Sasidhar ^c   Davies, Antony N ^d   Westhoff, Michael ^e   Litterst, Patrick ^e   Bödeker, Bertram ^f   Baumbach, Jorg Ingo ^c,f  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR ANALYTISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN ISAS E V   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KIST Europe ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^e Lung Clinic Hemer   (Germany)

^f TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breath analysis; Individual variability; Long time studies; VOC; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

BREATH ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; LONG TIME STUDIES; VOC; VOLATILE ORGANIC;

SPECTROMETRY; TIME SERIES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649908049     PISSN: 14356163     EISSN: 18654584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12127-010-0052-7     Document Type: Article

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