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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2010
Applicants:
Göran Palmskog, Järfälla, SE;
Olof Beck, Saltsjöö-Boo, SE;
Per Ola Andersson, Umeå, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sensa Bues AB, Huddinge, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sensor for detecting a drug substance () from exhaled breath of a subject in-situ. Its collecting surface has a Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)-active layer () of a SERS-active material. The collecting surface is arranged as an outer surface of a waveguide () for contact with exhaled breath, such that at least traces of said drug substance () in said exhaled breath can contact said SERS-active layer for read-out of a Raman shift spectrum.