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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2007
Applicant:
Steven Michael Massick, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Inventor:
Steven Michael Massick, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Assignee:
Southwest Sciences Incorporated, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/00 (2006.01); G01N 31/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for quantifying ketone or alydehyde concentrations of gas. The invention includes passing a gas sample through a reactor and an optical cell and determining a concentration of a gaseous reaction product. Using the concentration of the gaseous reaction product and a predetermined reaction conversion efficiency, a ketone or aldehyde concentration is calculated. This invention can be used for diabetes screening, diabetes maintenance, identification and quantification of ketosis, explosives detection and formaldehyde detection.