The development and evaluation of non-invasive methods to characterise the disease states of patients utilising selective discrimination, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and chemometrics
The ‘smell’ of illness, disease or age has been known for many centuries, mainly created by volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Dogs were first reported to detect cancer in 2004. Increasingly, the profiles of VOCs are being utilised as non-invasive diagnostic methods. The aim of the thesis was to dev...
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Open University
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.757630 |