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15 - General Engineering
Keele University
Direct, rapid quantitative analyses of BVOCs using SIFT-MS and PTR-MS obviating sample collection
This paper reports the development of selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry, SIFT-MS, carried out by the co-authors at Keele, and its application to various areas where on-line gas analysis is required, including exhaled breath analysis. The results of these wide-ranging studies demonstrate that SIFT-MS is eminently useful for the quantification of trace amounts of biogenic volatile organic compounds, BVOCs, not only in breath analysis for clinical diagnostics but also in environmental science. SIFT-MS is also compared and contrasted with the similar proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry, PTR-MS.