Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry of exhaled breath condensate headspace

• Published in: Rapid communications in mass spectrometry Vol. 22; no. 18; pp. 2844 - 2850
• Main Authors: Čáp, Petr, Dryahina, Kseniya, Pehal, František, Španěl, Patrik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 30.09.2008
• Subjects: Breath Tests - instrumentation; Breath Tests - methods; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Flow Injection Analysis - instrumentation; Flow Injection Analysis - methods; Humans; Hydrocarbons, Aromatic - analysis; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Specimen Handling - instrumentation; Specimen Handling - methods; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization - instrumentation; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization - methods; Volatilization

Collection of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is a relatively simple noninvasive method of breath analysis; however, no data have been reported that would relate concentration of volatile compounds in EBC to their gaseous concentrations in exhaled air. The aim of the study was to investigate which v...