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Liquid helium s use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) continues to increase as the medical profession accepts and develops new uses for the equipment. This equipment has eliminated some need for exploratory surgery by accurately diagnosing patients. Another medical application uses MRE to determine (by blood analysis) whether a patient has any form of cancer. 

Although pH optical fibre sensors have been already developed for blood analysis, they were not designed to reach, through a catheter, the vascular system of the brain. A pH sensor was developed for this purpose at the... 

Clinical chemistry, particularly the determination of the biologically relevant electrolytes in physiological fluids, remains the key area of ISEs application [15], as billions of routine measurements with ISEs are performed each year all over the world [16], The concentration ranges for the most important physiological ions detectable in blood fluids with polymeric ISEs are shown in Table 4.1. Sensors for pH and for ionized calcium, potassium and sodium are approved by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) and implemented into commercially available clinical analyzers [17], Moreover, magnesium, lithium, and chloride ions are also widely detected by corresponding ISEs in blood liquids, urine, hemodialysis solutions, and elsewhere. Sensors for the determination of physiologically relevant polyions (heparin and protamine), dissolved carbon dioxide, phosphates, and other blood analytes, intensively studied over the years, are on their way to replace less reliable and/or awkward analytical procedures for blood analysis (see below). 

Yoon el al. [112] reported an all-solid-state sensor for blood analysis. The sensor consists of a set of ion-selective membranes for the measurement of H+, K+, Na+, Ca2+, and Cl. The metal electrodes were patterned on a ceramic substrate and covered with a layer of solvent-processible polyurethane (PU) membrane. However, the pH measurement was reported to suffer severe unstable drift due to the permeation of water vapor and carbon dioxide through the membrane to the membrane-electrode interface. For conducting polymer-modified electrodes, the adhesion of conducting polymer to the membrane has been improved by introducing an adhesion layer. For example, polypyrrole (PPy) to membrane adhesion is improved by using an adhesion layer, such as Nafion [60] or a composite of PPy and Nafion [117],... 

H.J. Yoon, J.H. Shin, S.D. Ixe, H. Nam, G.S. Cha, T.D. Strong, and R.B. Brown, Solid-state ion sensors with a liquid junction-free polymer membrane-based reference electrode for blood analysis. Sens. Actuators B. 64, 8-14 (2000). 

However, blood analysis of cyanide in fire victims has revealed high levels of this chemical in fire victims. 

Table II. Blood Analysis of Fire Victims for 303 Total Cases...

Blood Analysis of phospho-rvlated peptides Phosphyla-ted BuChE LC-MS-MS (after enzymatic digestion of modified cholinesterase. Phosphylated nonapeptides i.s. plasma exposed to CD3-OP Covers all OP s LOD 1-5% BuChE inhibition Expensive instrumentation and reference compounds... 

For plasma and blood experiments, LC effluent was directed to waste for the first 1 min. Conventional blood analysis by drawing 1 mL samples from the saphenous catheter was used to validate SPME results. These samples were subjected to PPT with acetonitrile and the supernatant from centrifugation was analyzed. The SPME probes were also evaluated for pharmacokinetic analysis of diazepam and its metabolites, oxazepam and nordiazepam. Good correlation was obtained for conventional blood drawn from saphenous and cephalic sites of the animals, as shown in Figure 1.48. Although the analytical parameters for the automated study need improvement, the authors cite the study as a first demonstration of SPME technology for in vivo analysis. 

Kawai T, Yasugi T, Mizunuma K. 1992. Urinalysis vs. blood analysis as a tool for biological monitoring of solvent exposure. Toxicol Letters 63 333-343. 

The basic principles underlying both automated and unautomated methods of analysis are more or less the same. Out of the broad-spectrum of biological samples blood analysis is the most common one. There exists a number of parameters which may be assayed, and spectrophotometry is ideally suited for nearly all of them, a few typical examples are cited in Table 2.11. 

After absorption, lead enters the blood, and 97% is taken up by red blood cells. Here, lead has a half-life of two to three weeks during which there is some redistribution to the liver and kidney, then excretion into bile or deposition in bone. After an initial, reversible, uptake into bone, lead in bone becomes incorporated into the hydroxyapatite crystalline structure. Because of this, past exposure to lead is possible to quantitate using X-ray analysis. It is also possible to detect lead exposure and possible poisoning from urine and blood analysis, and the amount in blood represents current exposure. However, as lead is taken up into the red blood cell, both the free blood lead level and that in the erythrocytes needs to be known. 

Phthalic acid - [COATINGS] (Vol 6) -use in blood analysis [AUTOMATED INSTRUMENTATION - HEMATOLOGY] (Vol 3)... 

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