Sniffing out disease using the artificial nose.
Is there information in the odours that we emit and that circulate around us? More importantly, can doctors gain knowledge of disease by smelling their patients? Machines that emulate the mammalian nose have picked up the scent of several diseases and may drastically change diagnostic procedure.
Saini
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Cranfield Centre for Analytical Science, Cranfield University, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, MK45 4DT, UK. s.saini@cranfield.ac.uk
Barr
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Bessant
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D019937:Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D009812:Odorants; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012903:Smell