Detection of ethylene in smokers breath by laser photoacoustic spectroscopy

Gianfranco Giubileo; Adriana P. Puiu; Dan C. Dumitras

doi:10.1117/12.572042

29 July 2004 Detection of ethylene in smokers breath by laser photoacoustic spectroscopy

Gianfranco Giubileo, Adriana P. Puiu, Dan C. Dumitras

Proceedings Volume 5486, ALT'03 International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies: Biomedical Optics; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.572042
Event: ALT'03 International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies: Biomedical Optics, 2003, Silsoe, United Kingdom

Abstract

In the experiments reported in this paper small traces of ethylene down to ppb level have been detected by means of photoacoustic spectroscopy in the breath exhaled from humans. The method has been applied in studying how the concentration of the ethylene coming out from human lungs is modified after smoking. We followed up the evolution of ethylene concentration in the case of several people by monitoring the ethylene before and after smoking. In each case the first exhaled air sample was collected prior smoking the cigarette and compared with the samples collected after 30 minutes following the inhalation of cigarette smoke. In all the experiments a high value of ethylene concentration was found immediately after smoking. The experimental laser based photoacoustic system has been realized in ENEA Laboratories in Frascati, Italy.

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Gianfranco Giubileo, Adriana P. Puiu, and Dan C. Dumitras "Detection of ethylene in smokers breath by laser photoacoustic spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 5486, ALT'03 International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies: Biomedical Optics, (29 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.572042

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