Bridging the collaborative gap: Realizing the clinical potential of breath analysis for disease diagnosis and monitoring-tutorial

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3258-3270

  Braun, Phillip X ^a,b   Gmachl, Claire F ^c   Dweik, Raed A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NSF ERC Mid Infrared Technologies   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Breath analysis; collaboration; diagnostics; trace gas sensing

Indexed keywords

BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLINICAL USE; COLLABORATION; COURSE OF ACTION; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; EXHALED BREATHS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MONITORING TOOLS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION; POINT OF CARE; SAMPLING METHOD; SENSOR DEVELOPMENT; TRACE-GAS SENSING; VOLATILE PRODUCTS;

CURRICULA; DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS; INTERFACE STATES; ITERATIVE METHODS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; STANDARDIZATION; TEACHING; TRACE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84867696473     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2210403     Document Type: Article

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