An acetone is a well-known diabetes biomarker, since patients with diabetes tend to have higher acetone levels in their breath than healthy people. Exhaled acetone levels are usually in the range of 0.3-0.9 ppm (parts per million) for healthy subjects and over 3 ppm for patients with diabetes. Commercially-available gas sensors are under development for measuring samples at several tens ppm. Due to this fact, the microsystem with micropreconcentrator and sensor array is proposed as a solution that overcomes these limitations. The microsystem designed by author was manufactured in LTCC (Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics) technology. The microsystem based on micropreconcentrator structure as well as metal oxide gas sensors array. Acetone in diabetic breath was found to be higher than 1.11 ppm, while its concentration in normal breath was lower than 0.83 ppm.
Index Terms-Breath analysis, low temperature cofired ceramics (LTCC), exhaled acetone measurements, micropreconcentrators.A. Rydosz received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2009 and 2014, respectively. His current research interests include gas sensors and micropreconcentrators, LTCC, MEMS technology as well as gas sensors system applications.