The use of acetone
breath analyzers has been shown to be fairly accurate, but less accurate than the blood monitor method.
To construct
their breath analyzer, chemist David Smith of Keele University in Staffordshire, United Kingdom, and Patrik Spanel, a physicist with the Czech Republic's Academy of Sciences in Prague, brought a piece of space - spying technology down to Earth.
There are also other means of measuring ketones, of course, which you can find many good reviews for online, including urine sticks and a recent innovation,
a breath analyzer.
Ketostix are not nearly as accurate as
the Breath analyzer or Blood Ketone Meters.
Not exact matches
In a laboratory or clinical setting, the process of fat burning can easily be measured with a gas
analyzer — a device that assesses the air you
breath.
Urine ketosticks are known to yield notoriously inaccurate results, while blood tests can be painful and expensive,
breath ketone
analyzers can be even more expensive.
(4) The
breath tube ASD is tested with an
analyzer which has not been pre-calibrated for that device's specific lot (see § 40.245 (b)(1)-RRB-.