Devices and methods for quantifying nitric oxide
AssigneeSaNOtize Research and Development Corp.
InventorsGilly Regev, Christopher C. Miller
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, and systems for measuring nitric oxide released from a material. For example, a method of measuring nitric oxide release from a material can include introducing a continuous flow of a carrier gas into a sample holding chamber via a carrier gas inlet at an effective flow rate, introducing an amount of the nitric oxide releasing material into the sample holding chamber via a separate sample inlet to contact the continuous flow of the carrier gas, directing the carrier gas and released nitric oxide out of the sample holding chamber via a nitric oxide outlet toward a nitric oxide detector, and quantifying an amount of released nitric oxide using the nitric oxide detector.
Claims10
A method of measuring nitric oxide release from a material, comprising:
- introducing a continuous flow of a carrier gas into a sample holding chamber via a carrier gas inlet at an effective flow rate;
- introducing an amount of a nitric oxide releasing material into the sample holding chamber via a sample inlet to contact the continuous flow of the carrier gas, wherein the nitric oxide releasing material releases nitric oxide into the continuous flow of the carrier gas at a nitric oxide release rate;
- directing the carrier gas and the released nitric oxide out of the sample holding chamber via an outlet to a nitric oxide detector while the nitric oxide releasing material is held in the sample holding chamber;
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- measuring a concentration of released nitric oxide in the continuous flow of the carrier gas using the nitric oxide detector while the nitric oxide releasing material continues to release nitric oxide in the sample holding chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.