Breath Analysis with Broadly Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers

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• 作者：Katharina W枚rle ; Felicia Seichter ; Andreas Wilk ; Chris Armacost ; Tim Day ; Matthias Godejohann ; Ulrich Wachter ; Josef Vogt ; Peter Radermacher ; Boris Mizaikoff
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March 5, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：85
• 期：5
• 页码：2697-2702
• 全文大小：339K
• 年卷期：v.85,no.5(March 5, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-6882

文摘

With the availability of broadly tunable external cavity quantum cascade lasers (EC-QCLs), particularly bright mid-infrared (MIR; 3鈥?0 渭m) light sources are available offering high spectral brightness along with an analytically relevant spectral tuning range of >2 渭m. Accurate isotope ratio determination of ¹²CO₂ and ¹³CO₂ in exhaled breath is of critical importance in the field of breath analysis, which may be addressed via measurements in the MIR spectral regime. Here, we combine for the first time an EC-QCL tunable across the ¹²CO₂/¹³CO₂ spectral band with a miniaturized hollow waveguide gas cell for quantitatively determining the ¹²CO₂/¹³CO₂ ratio within the exhaled breath of mice. Due to partially overlapping spectral features, these studies are augmented by appropriate multivariate data evaluation and calibration techniques based on partial least-squares regression along with optimized data preprocessing. Highly accurate determinations of the isotope ratio within breath samples collected from a mouse intensive care unit validated via hyphenated gas chromatography鈥搈ass spectrometry confirm the viability of IR-HWG-EC-QCL sensing techniques for isotope-selective exhaled breath analysis.