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- Title
Application and Uses of Electronic Noses for Clinical Diagnosis on Urine Samples: A Review.
- Authors
Capelli, Laura; Taverna, Gianluigi; Bellini, Alessia; Eusebio, Lidia; Buffi, Niccolò; Lazzeri, Massimo; Guazzoni, Giorgio; Bozzini, Giorgio; Seveso, Mauro; Mandressi, Alberto; Tidu, Lorenzo; Grizzi, Fabio; Sardella, Paolo; Latorre, Giuseppe; Hurle, Rodolfo; Lughezzani, Giovanni; Casale, Paolo; Meregali, Sara; Sironi, Selena
- Abstract
The electronic nose is able to provide useful information through the analysis of the volatile organic compounds in body fluids, such as exhaled breath, urine and blood. This paper focuses on the review of electronic nose studies and applications in the specific field of medical diagnostics based on the analysis of the gaseous headspace of human urine, in order to provide a broad overview of the state of the art and thus enhance future developments in this field. The research in this field is rather recent and still in progress, and there are several aspects that need to be investigated more into depth, not only to develop and improve specific electronic noses for different diseases, but also with the aim to discover and analyse the connections between specific diseases and the body fluids odour. Further research is needed to improve the results obtained up to now; the development of new sensors and data processing methods should lead to greater diagnostic accuracy thus making the electronic nose an effective tool for early detection of different kinds of diseases, ranging from infections to tumours or exposure to toxic agents.
- Subjects
VOLATILE organic compounds; BODY fluids; ELECTRONIC noses; URINALYSIS; BLOOD testing
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2016, Vol 16, Issue 10, p1708
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s16101708