Main description:

This volume highlights the potentials as well as the limits and challenges of human breath analysis and describes the current efforts made to advance this promising technology from bench to bed. Human breath analysis is a young, interdisciplinary and innovative research field aiming to provide a smart and non-invasive diagnostic tool, which can be used for screening, detecting and monitoring of diseases or metabolic disorders. This book presents different approaches for breath analysis including real-time and offline mass spectrometry as well as optical and semiconductor gas sensing methods. Besides, the role of smart algorithms to improve the performance of those technologies and the importance of pulmonary function diagnostics for more reliable and meaningful breath analysis are highlighted. Finally, current application scenarios and future perspectives of breath analysis and pulmonary functioning tests are addressed.

The volume is useful for researchers, who are new in the field, to easily get an overview of the current status and the challenges present in human breath analysis. Topics from fundamental research over targeted sensor development and application scenarios are described. Thus, this volume covers all development stages providing support and inspiration for engineers, medical doctors and scientists from various fields.

Contents:

Physio-Metabolic Monitoring via Breath Employing Real-Time Mass Spectrometry: Importance, Challenges, Potentials, and Pitfalls.- Offline Breath Analysis: Standardization of Breath Sampling and
Analysis Using Mass Spectrometry and Innovative Algorithms.- Ion Mobility Spectrometry in Clinical and Emergency Setting: Research and Potential Applications.- Infrared Sensing Strategies: Toward Smart Diagnostics for Exhaled Breath Analysis.- Scopes and Limits of Photoacoustic Spectroscopy in Modern Breath Analysis.- Advances of Semiconductor Gas Sensing Materials, Structures,
and Algorithms for Breath Analysis.- Breath Analysis as Part of Pulmonary Function Diagnostics.