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Portable Medical Diagnosis InstrumentA system that integrates several technologies into a single, portable medical diagnostic apparatus for analyzing a sample body fluid (liquid and/or gas): (1) a mechanism to capture airborne microdroplets and to separate the body fluid into a first fluid component (primarily gas) and a second fluid component (primarily liquid); (2) a volatilizer to convert a portion of the second fluid component into a third fluid component that is primarily a gas; (3) a functionalized nanostructure (NS) array configured to receive, identify, and estimate concentration of at least one constituent in the first and/or third fluid components; (4) a miniaturized differential mobility spectrometer (DMS) module; and (5) a biomarker sensor, to detect volatile and non-volatile molecules in a sample fluid, which may contain one or more components of blood, breath, perspiration, saliva, and urine.
Document ID
20170011501
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Other - Patent
Authors
Straume, Tore
Loftus, David J.
Li, Jing
Davis, Cristina E.
Singh, Anup K.
Coleman, Matthew A.
Date Acquired
December 4, 2017
Publication Date
November 21, 2017
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
Patent
US-Patent-9,824,870
Patent Application
US-Patent-Appl-SN-14/700,019
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