Document - Self-monitoring the breath for the prevention of cardio-metabolic risk

2017

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Self-monitoring the breath for the prevention of cardio-metabolic risk

Germanese D., D'Acunto M., Magrini M., Righi M., Salvetti O.

Breath analysis Gas sensors Self-monitoring

Breath analysis techniques offer a potential revolution in health care diagnostics because of their un-obtrusiveness and their inherent safety. However, while standard instrumentation such as mass spectrometers use laboratory settings to provide a correlation between exhaled substances and physical conditions, to fully realize the potential of breath analysis as a self-monitoring tool, its application must take place also in the clinics and at home and not only in a laboratory. This basic requirement has stimulated the necessity to develop cheap, portable, real time, easy-to-use devices for reliable breath tests and analysis. In this paper, we present the design of a portable breath analyzer, able to sense a set of breath volatile organic compounds (VOCs), to perform a processing of the data collected and to generate an output easily interpreted both by physicians and patients.

Source: Eighth International Conference on Sensor Device Technologies and Applications, pp. 96–101, Rome, Italy, 10-14/09/2017

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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:380125,
	title = {Self-monitoring the breath for the prevention of cardio-metabolic risk},
	author = {Germanese D. and D'Acunto M. and Magrini M. and Righi M. and Salvetti O.},
	booktitle = {Eighth International Conference on Sensor Device Technologies and Applications, pp. 96–101, Rome, Italy, 10-14/09/2017},
	year = {2017}
}