T. Thepudom, T. Kerdcharoen, A. Tuantranont, T. Pogfay
{"title":"Health-care electronic nose to detect beer odor in breath after drinking","authors":"T. Thepudom, T. Kerdcharoen, A. Tuantranont, T. Pogfay","doi":"10.1109/BMEICON.2012.6465444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEICON.2012.6465444","url":null,"abstract":"Breath analysis is an interesting technique to detect several volatile organic compounds presented within the human body that can indicate the health status of individuals. For this purpose, electronic nose is a convenient device, which is based on a sensor array similar to the olfactory sense as presented in human nose. At present, electronic nose has been widely applied to classify various kinds of odors including those related to healthcare such as breath monitoring. Beer is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages which effects on health and beer odor can be detected in breathing. Beer contains various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as ethanol, ethyl acetate and acetaldehyde. In this work, an optical electronic nose that comprises 2 thin films acting as multiple gas sensors (Zinc-5,10,15,20-tetra-phenyl-21H-porphyrin or ZnTPP and Zinc-2,9,16,23-tetra-tert-butyl-29H, 31H-phthalocyanine or ZnTTBPc) were applied to monitor the reduction of alcohol in human breath after drinking of beer. The measurement of VOCs was investigated based on change in the optical absorption of both thin films upon interactions with the breath sample. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used as classification technique to analyze VOCs in form of fingerprint. It was found that the optical electronic nose is capable of tracking alcohol decay in exhaled breath with the passing time.","PeriodicalId":409705,"journal":{"name":"The 5th 2012 Biomedical Engineering International Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126571878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Chaiyun, P. Phasukkit, C. Pintavirooj, A. Sanpanich
{"title":"3D finite element analysis for coronary artery disease therapy by using microwave ablation","authors":"T. Chaiyun, P. Phasukkit, C. Pintavirooj, A. Sanpanich","doi":"10.1109/BMEICON.2012.6465470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEICON.2012.6465470","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents three-dimensions finite element analysis of 2.45 GHz microwave ablation for plagued coronary artery treatment. Any narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries reduces blood supply to the heart tissue, following by reducing an amount of delivered oxygen and nutrients. This phenomenon inhibits a normal function of the heart muscle. In this research, we propose an application of finite element method to analyze and simulate a microwave ablation process on the blockage or plagued coronary artery. The investigation emphasizes on a reduction of plague or fat size that fixed around a coronary wall when heating by microwave thermal ablation. The simulation results of 3D analysis show the characteristic of temperature distribution in the coronary artery and a destructive area of plaque. 10 Watts of emission power at temperature 95 °C is used as a preliminary value. The simulation found that 3.21 mm3 of plaque size can be destroyed with 10 s. These obtained results usefully guide us to develop and more investigate on a further system in the future.","PeriodicalId":409705,"journal":{"name":"The 5th 2012 Biomedical Engineering International Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126154470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conference banquet and research networking event","authors":"Tad Fane","doi":"10.1109/bmeicon.2012.6465518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/bmeicon.2012.6465518","url":null,"abstract":"BMEiCON 2012 organizing committees are glad to announce that the BMEiCON 2012 banquet will be held at Arawan Riverside Hotel in Pakse, Laos (http://www.arawanhotelpakse. com/index.php) at the evening of December 6th, 2012. At the conference banquet, the participants will be welcomed with the traditional welcome ceremony and impressed with traditional dances and performances. Also, there will be a keynote speech at the banquet.","PeriodicalId":409705,"journal":{"name":"The 5th 2012 Biomedical Engineering International Conference","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122150568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}