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System and method for detection of analytes in exhaled breath

US8705029B2 · kind B2 · utility

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3References

19Claims

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Assignee

Sensa Bues AB · SE

Inventors

Goran Palmskog · Järfälla, SE
Olof Beck · Boo, SE
Per Andersson · Fagersanna, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 11, 2013
Grant date	Apr 22, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 11, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF05D2250/51
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device, system, and methods are disclosed for detecting the presence or determining a quantitative amount of at least one drug substance from exhaled breath of a subject in-situ. A collecting surface has a Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)-active layer that comprises at least one SERS-active material. The collecting surface is arranged as an outer surface of a waveguide for contact with exhaled breath, such that at least traces of said at least one drug substance in said exhaled breath can contact said SERS-active layer for read-out of a Raman shift spectrum that is detected in-situ for said detecting the presence or determining the quantitative amount of said at least one drug substance from said exhaled breath.

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