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Optical Urea Sensing in Sweat for Kidney Healthcare by Sensitive and Selective Non-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Golparvar, Ata  
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Boukhayma, Assim  
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Petrelli, Mattia
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January 1, 2023
Optical Diagnostics And Sensing Xxiii
Conference on Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXIII - Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Sweat biomarker analysis has attracted much interest in applications ranging from sports to wearable healthcare. Among all the sweat biomolecules, abnormal urea levels have been linked to several complications, particularly renal dysfunction. Here, we report the first application of non-enhanced (i.e., spontaneous) Raman spectroscopy for urea sensing in sweat. The proposed method eliminates the need for plasmonic surface fabrication for surface enhancement or bulky ultrashort-pulsed lasers for coherent enhancement. The exploitation of non-enhanced Raman was made possible because the concentration of urea in sweat, due to sweat physiology, is significantly higher with respect to urea concentration in blood. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed technique, we first identified the most intense urea Raman band. We then investigated the feasibility of the single-band integration data analysis to predict urea concentration in buffer solution. Single-band data analysis holds great promise for instrument miniaturization and facilitates the effort toward mobile and wearable photonic technologies. Next, we provided firm evidence of the high selectivity of the proposed sensing concept with human sweat in vitro. Finally, we reported successful ex vivo physiological sweat urea monitoring (with artificial eccrine perspiration, the closest mimic to true human eccrine sweat) on a porcine phantom, which mimics human skin, proving the potential of the proposed technique for in situ sweat urea analysis. We recorded an excellent linear calibration for urea concentrations from 0 to 60 mM with R-2 value of 0.9973, high sensitivity of 3521 count/mM, and low detection and quantification limits of 0.47 and 1.33 mM, respectively.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2653959
Web of Science ID

WOS:001011706900016

Author(s)
Golparvar, Ata  
Boukhayma, Assim  
Petrelli, Mattia
Enz, Christian  
Carrara, Sandro  
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Optical Diagnostics And Sensing Xxiii
ISBN of the book

978-1-5106-5879-0

978-1-5106-5880-6

Series title/Series vol.

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging

Volume

12387

Start page

123870H

Subjects

Engineering, Biomedical

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Optics

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Engineering

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Optics

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kidney failure

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label-free

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non-invasive

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optical biosensor

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personalized medicine

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raman scattering

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sweat analysis

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vibrational spectroscopy

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lactate

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disease

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Conference on Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXIII - Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics

San Francisco, CA

Jan 30-31, 2023

Available on Infoscience
July 31, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/199472
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