Patent ID: 8512676
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: A61B,G01N

Abstract:
1. A method of determining if an individual is transitioning from a healthy state to an unhealthy state, the method comprising: monitoring breath taken from the individual and measuring a relative amount of a first isotope to a second isotope therein over a total time interval (t identifying a healthy functional oscillation pattern in the relative amount of the first isotope to the second isotope therein during time interval t identifying a test functional oscillation pattern in the relative amount of the first isotope to the second isotope therein a test time interval t determining that the individual is transitioning from a healthy state to an unhealthy state when the healthy functional oscillation pattern and the test functional oscillation pattern are distinct in period of oscillation, oscillations per unit time, and/or variability in oscillation period, wherein the first and second isotopes are selected from the group consisting of a pair of