Gas Sensors for Health Care and Medical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue welcomes both reviews and original research articles on the current progress of new sensor technology, human gas specimen collection methods, and interpretation of breath analyses. The recent advancement of breath, using breath-gas monitoring, highly sensitive volatile organic compounds (VOC) detection by chemical or gas sensors, and progress of array or microsensors combined with system technology, enables new applications of human monitoring and parts per billion (ppb) level detection of breath VOC. This state-of-the-art of detection technology accelerates the generation of commercially available sensor systems for health care applications, with significantly-enhanced detection capabilities and minimal size, weight, and power consumption. In this Special Issue, the current state-of-the-art of VOC detection and analysis for health care and medical applications will be examined, and the standardization and methodology for specimen collection, patient preparation, and data analysis for assessing human health or disease will be discussed. This session intends to bridge the gap between the recent achievements of chemical sensors and systems and their applications to the new field of human health monitoring. As such, breath analysis can have an important impact on the global challenges that are faced by medical communities and sensor-technology users.

Prof. Dr. Woosuck Shin
Dr. Toshio Itoh
Guest Editors