A compendium of all the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emanating from the human
body (the volatolome) is for the first time reported. 1840 VOCs have been assigned from …

Recently breath analysis has attracted a lot of attention for disease monitoring and clinical
diagnostics as spectrometric techniques of high sophistication and novel sensing materials …

Ammonia (NH3) is an irritant gas with a unique pungent odor; sub-parts per million-level
breath ammonia is a medical biomarker for kidney disorders and Helicobacter pylori …

Conventional diagnostic methods for lung cancer, are unsuitable for widespread screening,
because they are expensive and occasionally miss tumours. Gas chromatography/mass …

Background: Tumour growth is accompanied by gene and/or protein changes that may lead
to peroxidation of the cell membrane species and, hence, to the emission of volatile organic …

Background Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Europe and the western
world. At present, diagnosis of lung cancer very often happens late in the course of the …

Proton-transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) is a technique developed almost
exclusively for the detection of gaseous organic compounds in air. Volatile organic …

Over the last few years, breath analysis for the routine monitoring of metabolic disorders has
attracted a considerable amount of scientific interest, especially since breath sampling is a …

Semiconductor gas sensors using metal oxides, carbon nanotubes, graphene-based
materials, and metal chalcogenides have been reviewed from the viewpoint of the sensitive …

Background An effective screening tool for colorectal cancer is still lacking. Analysis of the
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) linked to cancer is a new frontier in cancer screening, as …