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Breath Analysis Workshop: September 8-9, 2008
Call for Papers (new!)
We have recently gotten permission to guest edit a special topics issue of the
IEEE Sensors journal. The draft call for papers is here. The final call for
papers will be announced on the journal website shortly. However, as a service
to the community, we wanted to give advance notice that this is approved.
Please consider submitting a manuscript on your work in this area to this
peer-reviewed special topics issue of the archival journal IEEE Sensors.
Guest Editors for this issue are:
* Professor Cristina Davis, University of California, Davis ( cedavis@ucdavis.edu
)
* Dr. Matthias Frank, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( frank1@llnl.gov )
* Professor Boris Mizaikoff, University of Ulm ( boris.mizaikoff@mac.com )
* Dr. Harald Oser, SRI International, Inc. ( harald.oser@sri.com )
Goal for the Special Issue
The last two decades have witnessed pioneering advances in the analytical
assessment of chemical compounds and metabolites exhaled in human breath. While
the physiological relevance and meaning of many components in breath is not yet
fully elucidated, it is evident that the composition of exhaled breath (EB) and
breath condensate (EBC) provide a complex image of the biochemical processes in
the body, which can be correlated to the physiological status of the patient.
Bench-top investigations have elucidated the identities of many volatile and
non-volatile breath biomarkers, there is current interest in the field to
advance novel sensor concepts to monitor for these analytes in breath.
Technologies that will follow to make clinical breath analysis tests a reality
will need to incorporate novel sensors that will meet a range of engineering
design challenges. This special topics issue will explore novel sensors and
methods that are currently being researched and developed in academic, national
laboratories and industrial settings.
Original research contributions, tutorials and review papers are sought in
breath analysis areas including (but not limited to):
MEMS/NEMS sensors
Solid state detectors
Miniature IR sensors
Miniature breath collection/concentration modules
Enzyme-based sensors
Miniature gas chromatography and mass spectrometers applied towards breath
analysis
Informatics approaches to interpret sensor output for breath diagnostics
System level designs for hand-held mobile breath sensing systems
Information about peer-review:
Solicited and invited papers shall undergo the standard IEEE Sensors Journal
peer review process. All manuscripts must be submitted on-line using the IEEE
Sensors manuscript template, via the IEEE Manuscript CentralTM, see
http://sensors-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com. Upon submission, please indicate in
the Author Comments section, and also by e-mail to Ms. Linda Matarazzo (l.matarazzo@ieee.org),
that the paper is intended for this Special Issue. Authors for this Special
Issue are encouraged to suggest names of potential reviewers for their
manuscripts in the space provided for these recommendations in Manuscript
Central. For manuscript preparation and submission, please follow the guidelines
in the Information for Authors at the IEEE Sensors Journal web page, http://www.ieee.org/sensors.