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Fourier transform/infrared spectrometry (FT/IR) detects and identifies CWAs by measuring the infrared spectrum of the air sample noninvasively and instantly (Mukhopadhyay 2004). Considering the interference of water and carbon dioxide, characteristic absorbance peaks in the low-wave number region are used as the specific marker. Portable FT-IR equipment is commercially available. IGA-1700 (Otsuka Electronics, Japan) and DX-4000 (Temet, Finland) showed... 

A number of laboratory tests are available to measure exocrine function in the investigation of pancreatic insufficiency (most commonly caused by cystic fibrosis in children and chronic pancreatitis in adults). Tests fall into two categories, invasive and noninvasive. Invasive tests require GI, intubation to collect pancreatic samples noninvasive tests (or tubeless tests ) were developed to avoid intubation, which is uncomfortable for the patient, time-consuming, and therefore expensive. Noninvasive tests are simpler and cheaper to perform, but in general they lack the sensitivity and specificity of the invasive tests, particularly for the diagnosis of mild pancreatic insufficiency. It is important to recognize that biochemical tests have a limited clinical application in the diagnosis of pancreatic disease because of either the complexity of the invasive tests or the inadequate... 

The objective ia any analytical procedure is to determine the composition of the sample (speciation) and the amounts of different species present (quantification). Spectroscopic techniques can both identify and quantify ia a single measurement. A wide range of compounds can be detected with high specificity, even ia multicomponent mixtures. Many spectroscopic methods are noninvasive, involving no sample collection, pretreatment, or contamination (see Nondestructive evaluation). Because only optical access to the sample is needed, instmments can be remotely situated for environmental and process monitoring (see Analytical METHODS Process control). Spectroscopy provides rapid real-time results, and is easily adaptable to continuous long-term monitoring. Spectra also carry information on sample conditions such as temperature and pressure. 

Radiometry. Radiometry is the measurement of radiant electromagnetic energy (17,18,134), considered herein to be the direct detection and spectroscopic analysis of ambient thermal emission, as distinguished from techniques in which the sample is actively probed. At any temperature above absolute zero, some molecules are in thermally populated excited levels, and transitions from these to the ground state radiate energy at characteristic frequencies. Erom Wien s displacement law, T = 2898 //m-K, the emission maximum at 300 K is near 10 fim in the mid-ir. This radiation occurs at just the energies of molecular rovibrational transitions, so thermal emission carries much the same information as an ir absorption spectmm. Detection of the emissions of remote thermal sources is the ultimate passive and noninvasive technique, requiring not even an optical probe of the sampled volume. 

Magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive structural technique for complex systems of molecules, such as people. In its simplest form, MRI portrays the concentration of protons in a sample. If the sample—which may be a living human body—is exposed to a uniform magnetic field in an NMR spectrometer and if we work at a resolution that does not show any chemical shifts or fine structure, then the protons... 

Based on samples that can be obtained nonlethally and noninvasively, and that can be sampled repeatedly in the same individual... 

Have resilience within the population to repetitive sampling, due either to the large number of individuals in the population or the availability of noninvasive sampling techniques... 

NMR is an incredibly versatile tool that can be used for a wide array of applications, including determination of molecular structure, monitoring of molecular dynamics, chemical analysis, and imaging. NMR has found broad application in the food science and food processing areas (Belton et al., 1993, 1995, 1999 Colquhoun and Goodfellow, 1994 Eads, 1999 Gil et al., 1996 Hills, 1998 O Brien, 1992 Schmidt et al., 1996 Webb et al., 1995, 2001). The ability of NMR to quantify food properties and their spatiotemporal variation in a nondestructive, noninvasive manner is especially useful. In turn, these properties can then be related to the safety, stability, and quality of a food (Eads, 1999). Because food materials are transparent to the radio frequency electromagnetic radiation required in an NMR experiment, NMR can be used to probe virtually any type of food sample, from liquids, such as beverages, oils, and broth, to semisolids, such as cheese, mayonnaise, and bread, to solids, such as flour, powdered drink mixes, and potato chips. 

As described previously, there are a number of significant advantages to using NMR to examine food systems, such as the noninvasive and nondestructive nature of the technique, the limitless types of food samples that can... 

Several specialized reviews on detection of QT liability in the clinical development phase have already been published and the reader is referred to these publications [63]. Guidelines of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology (IS H N E) for electrocardiographic evaluation of drug-related QT prolongation are also available [161]. The main issues related to measurement of the QT interval in clinical studies are summarized in Table 3.4. An important aspect is the calculation of sample size usually 40-60 subjects per treatment arm are required, implying high cost [162-164]. 

In comparison with other measurement methods, NMR has important strengths. Its great virtue is its noninvasive nature, allowing one to obtain spatially resolved metabolic profiles and to investigate metabolomics in vivo. 10 There is little or no sample preparation. It is nondestructive. It is information-rich with regard to the determination of molecular structures because it can detect different chemical groups of metabolites simultaneously. 

Saliva. The extraction of DNA from mouthwash samples provides high-yield, good-quality DNA that is also suitable for whole-genome amplification (23). The advantage of this sample source over blood is that the procedure for collecting samples is noninvasive, and the mouthwash samples are stable at room temperature for extended periods of time. 

To detect dynamic featnres of colloidal preparations, additional methods are required. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy allows a rapid, repeatable, and noninvasive measurement of the physical parameters of lipid matrices withont sample preparation (e.g., dilution of the probe) [26,27]. Decreased lipid mobility resnlts in a remarkable broadening of the signals of lipid protons, which allows the differentiation of SLN and supercooled melts. Because of the different chemical shifts, it is possible to attribute the nuclear magnetic resonance signal to particnlar molecnles or their segments. 

Raman often is evaluated as an alternative to an existing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method because of its potential to be noninvasive, fast, simple to perform, and solvent-free. Raman was compared to HPLC for the determination of ticlopidine-hydrochloride (TCL) [43], risperidone [44] in film-coated tablets, and medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) in 150-mg/mL suspensions (DepoProvera, Pfizer) [45] it was found to have numerous advantages and performance suitable to replace HPLC. In an off-line laboratory study, the relative standard deviation of the measurement of the composition of powder mixtures of two sulfonamides, sulfathiazole and sulfanilamide, was reduced from 10-20% to less than 4% by employing a reusable, easily prepared rotating sample cell [46]. 

The earliest applications for quantitative analysis of liquid samples and solid preparations entailed sample dissolution in an appropriate solvent. A number of moisture determinations in APIs and pharmaceutical preparations based on both reflectance and transmission measurements have been reported. Their results are comparable to those of the KF method. The high sensitivity provided by the NIR technique has fostered its use in the determination of moisture in freeze-dried pharmaceuticals. ° The noninvasive nature of NIR has been exploited in determination of moisture in sealed glass vials. " " ... 

Saliva The use of saliva as a diagnostic fluid has been studied for many years [266]. While the ease and noninvasiveness with which a sample can be obtained make this matrix attractive to the medical community, the use of saliva to detect exposures of persons to environmental contaminants has not been investigated in many studies. However, it has been established that the measurement of cotinine, an indicator of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, in saliva is correlated with concentrations of cotinine in serum [267]. 

Dams et al. [18] developed a validated quantitative LC-APCI-MS-MS method for simultaneous determination of multiple illicit drugs and their metabolites in oral fluid. This substrate is being increasingly popular for forensic applications as it provides information on recent use, similarly to blood plasma/serum, although it can be obtained with a simple, noninvasive, collection. Sample pretreatment, though limited to protein precipitation with acetonitrile, was sufficient to avoid matrix effect (see Figure 20.2). 

The best conclusion that can be drawn from these data is perhaps that treatment with naltrexone may offer promise for some, but certainly not all, patients with self-injury. Treatment effects may depend on background opioid levels, dosage, and treatment regimen. Noninvasive measures that predict individual treatment response have not been established. Self-injury is a heterogeneous phenomenon from a clinical and biological perspective (Buitelaar, 1993 Willemsen-Swinkels et ah, 1998). Further studies are required in this area, and and should include carefully clinically documented cases, large samples, and controlled designs. At this time, the use of naltrexone for the treatment of self-injury is to be considered experimental. 

Impedance spectroscopy may provide quantitative information about the conductance, the dielectric coefficient, the static properties of a system at the interfaces, and its dynamic changes due to adsorption or charge-transfer phenomena. Since in this technique an alternating current with low amplitude is employed, a noninvasive observation of samples with no or low influence on the electrochemical state is possible. 

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