Development of an Individual Device for Exhaled Breath Temperature Measurement

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-113

  Popov, Todor A ^a   Kralimarkova, Tanya Z ^a   Dimitrov, Vasil D ^a   Tzachev, Christo T ^a   Dunev, Stefan S ^b   Gill, Jas ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

^c Delmedica Investments Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; clinical annlications; core body temperature; exhaled breath temperature; thermometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008006357     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2035732     Document Type: Article

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