Microsensors in Dynamic Backgrounds: Toward Real-Time Breath Monitoring

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-144

  Benkstein, Kurt D ^a   Raman, Baranidharan ^a   Montgomery, Christopher B ^a   Semancik, Steve ^a   Martinez, Carlos J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological gases; gas detectors; microsensors; multidimensional signal processing; nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008028637     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2035738     Document Type: Article

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