Breath Analysis: Analytical Methodologies and Clinical Applications

Analytical Techniques for Clinical Chemistry: Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 651-689

  Ceccarini, Alessio ^a   Di Francesco, Fabio ^a   Fuoco, Roger ^a   Ghimenti, Silvia ^a   Onor, Massimo ^b   Tabucchi, Sara ^a   Trivella, Maria Giovanna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breath analysis, methodologies and clinical applications; Breath markers and pathological conditions; Chemical markers in exhaled air, diseases in human beings; Exposure assessment, human breath and thousands of VOCs; SIFT MS, for rate coefficient determination in gas phase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886139088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118271858.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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