Exhaled breath biomonitoring using laser spectroscopy

Current Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 463-475

  Vaittinen, Olavi ^a   Schmidt, Florian Manfred ^a   Metsälä, Markus ^a   Halonen, Lauri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acetylene; Ammonia; Biomonitoring; Breath analysis; Cavity ring down spectroscopy; Hydrogen cyanide; Laser spectroscopy; Toxicokinetics

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACETYLENE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOMONITORING; BLOOD AND URINE SAMPLES; BREATH ANALYSIS; CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPIES; EXHALED BREATHS; GAS-PHASE MEASUREMENT; SIMPLE++; TOXICOKINETICS;

AMMONIA;

EID: 84878649297     PISSN: 15734110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1573411011309030016     Document Type: Article

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