Advances in Electronic-Nose Technologies Developed for Biomedical Applications

By Alphus D. Wilson, Manuela Baietto. Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2011

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The research and development of new electronic-nose applications in the biomedical field has accelerated at a phenomenal rate over the past 25 years. Many innovative e-nose technologies have provided solutions and applications to a wide variety of complex biomedical and healthcare problems. The purposes of this review are to present a comprehensive analysis of past and recent biomedical research findings and developments of electronic-nose sensor technologies, and to identify current and future potential e-nose applications that will continue to advance the effectiveness and efficiency of biomedical treatments and healthcare services for many years. An abundance of electronic-nose applications has been developed for a variety of healthcare sectors including diagnostics, immunology, pathology, patient recovery, pharmacology, physical therapy, physiology, preventative medicine, remote healthcare, and wound and graft healing. Specific biomedical e-nose applications range from uses in biochemical testing, blood-compatibility evaluations, disease diagnoses, and drug delivery to monitoring of metabolic levels, organ dysfunctions, and patient conditions through telemedicine. This paper summarizes the major electronic-nose technologies developed for healthcare and biomedical applications since the late 1980s when electronic aroma detection technologies were first recognized to be potentially useful in providing effective solutions to problems in the healthcare industry.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy

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Citations in the corpus

• Applications and Advances in Bioelectronic Noses for Odour Sensing (2018, background): “Currently, olfactory research is focused on the discovery of potential commercial applications, and the biomimetic design of an electronic nose is considered a significant breakthrough [26].”
• Fungal volatile organic compounds: A review with emphasis on their biotechnological potential (2012, methodology): “A typical E-nose system combines a multi-sensor array, an information processing unit, pattern recognition software, and a reference library (Wilson and Baietto, 2009, 2011).”