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Self-monitoring the Breath for the Prevention of Cardio-metabolic Risk

Authors:
Danila Germanese
Mario D'Acunto
Massimo Magrini
Marco Righi
Ovidio Salvetti

Keywords: –Breath analysis; Gas sensors; Self-monitoring; Home-care; Portable device; Signal processing.

Abstract:
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, tofullyrealizethepotentialofbreathanalysisasaself-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.

Pages: 96 to 101

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: September 10, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3514

ISBN: 978-1-61208-581-4

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 10, 2017 to September 14, 2017