• DocumentCode
    688562
  • Title

    Clinical application of a mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Laser based sensor for multianalyte detection in human blood plasma

  • Author

    Brandstetter, M. ; Sumalowitsch, T. ; Genner, A. ; Fuhrmann, V. ; Lendl, Bernhard

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Chem. Technol. & Analytics, Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A portable point-of-care sensor employing a broadly tunable External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser was applied for clinical multianalyte detection in human blood plasma. Glucose, triglyzerides, total protein, albumin, cholesterol and fibrinogen could be succesfully quantified.
  • Keywords
    biochemistry; blood; chemical sensors; laser applications in medicine; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; molecular biophysics; optical sensors; patient diagnosis; proteins; quantum cascade lasers; albumin; broadly tunable external cavity QCL; cholesterol; clinical multianalyte detection; fibrinogen; glucose; human blood plasma; midinfrared quantum cascade laser; portable point-of-care sensor; total protein; triglyzerides; Absorption; Blood; Plasmas; Proteins; Quantum cascade lasers; Spectroscopy; Sugar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6832936