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Exhaled ethane in lung cancer patients measured with laser ...

...Articles White Papers Webcasts Advanced Current Issues Web Exclusives Webcasts Newsletters White Papers Events Buyers Guide SpecSearch Editorial Info Advertise Links From The Wires Exhaled ethane in "There is increasing interest in ethane in exhaled breath as a noninvasive marker of oxidative stress (OS) and thereby a potential indicator of disease.

However, the lack of real-time measurement techniques has limited progress in the field," researchers in Scotland reported.

"Here we report on a novel Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer (TDLS) applied to the analysis of exhaled ethane in patients with Skeldon and colleagues, University of Glasgow.

"The patient group (nR) comprised randomly selected patients presenting at a respiratory clinic.

Of these, a sub-group (n) was subsequently diagnosed with An age-matched group (n) corresponding to the The concentration of ethane in a single exhaled breath sample collected from all subjects was later measured using the TDLS.

"This technique is capable of real-time analysis of samples with accuracy .1 parts pe...