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ATR based infrared spectroscopy for the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

ATR based infrared spectroscopy for the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
ATR based infrared spectroscopy for the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
Optical spectroscopy offers a potential non-invasive, label free and rapid method to assist clinicians to diagnose diseases for which biomarkers are known. Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (nRDS) diagnosis in preterm infants is known to be correlated with the lecithin/sphingomyelin ratio (LS ratio) in gastric aspirates, with a ratio less than 2.2 indicating that surfactant replacement therapy is needed. Currently no widespread method exists that can give clinically relevant answers in less than 2 hours from the point of sample collection as it is difficult to identify those who could benefit from prompt surfactant treatment. Various LS ratios were generated using pure dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and sphingomyelin (SM) dissolved in dichloromethane and infrared spectra generated using Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) assisted Fourier Transform InfraRed spectrometry (FTIR). Subsequent analysis obtained the LS ratio using the spectra alone. Further, we demonstrate the application of principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares (PLS) fits to measured spectra to assist in the determination of the LS ratio using a model trained with multiple runs of the different batches of the same concentration.
ATR-FTIR, Biomarker diagnosis, Biomedical diagnostics, Mid-IR spectroscopy, NRDS
1605-7422
SPIE
Ahmed, Waseem
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Veluthandath, Aneesh Vincent
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Madsen, Jens
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Clark, Howard W.
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Postle, Antony D.
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Wilkinson, James S.
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Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil
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Cote, Gerard L.
Ahmed, Waseem
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Veluthandath, Aneesh Vincent
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Madsen, Jens
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Clark, Howard W.
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Postle, Antony D.
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Wilkinson, James S.
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Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil
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Cote, Gerard L.

Ahmed, Waseem, Veluthandath, Aneesh Vincent, Madsen, Jens, Clark, Howard W., Postle, Antony D., Wilkinson, James S. and Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil (2021) ATR based infrared spectroscopy for the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Cote, Gerard L. (ed.) In Proceedings Volume 11651: Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXI: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics. vol. 11651, SPIE. 6 pp . (doi:10.1117/12.2578818).

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Abstract

Optical spectroscopy offers a potential non-invasive, label free and rapid method to assist clinicians to diagnose diseases for which biomarkers are known. Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (nRDS) diagnosis in preterm infants is known to be correlated with the lecithin/sphingomyelin ratio (LS ratio) in gastric aspirates, with a ratio less than 2.2 indicating that surfactant replacement therapy is needed. Currently no widespread method exists that can give clinically relevant answers in less than 2 hours from the point of sample collection as it is difficult to identify those who could benefit from prompt surfactant treatment. Various LS ratios were generated using pure dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and sphingomyelin (SM) dissolved in dichloromethane and infrared spectra generated using Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) assisted Fourier Transform InfraRed spectrometry (FTIR). Subsequent analysis obtained the LS ratio using the spectra alone. Further, we demonstrate the application of principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares (PLS) fits to measured spectra to assist in the determination of the LS ratio using a model trained with multiple runs of the different batches of the same concentration.

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Published date: 5 March 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge the funding support received from the UK EPSRC grant EP/S03109X/1. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 SPIE
Keywords: ATR-FTIR, Biomarker diagnosis, Biomedical diagnostics, Mid-IR spectroscopy, NRDS

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Local EPrints ID: 448153
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/448153
ISSN: 1605-7422
PURE UUID: cb593d34-19f8-4c95-919f-8d804b66236b
ORCID for Aneesh Vincent Veluthandath: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4306-6723
ORCID for James S. Wilkinson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4712-1697
ORCID for Ganapathy Senthil Murugan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2733-3273

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Date deposited: 13 Apr 2021 16:31
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:00

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Author: Waseem Ahmed
Author: Aneesh Vincent Veluthandath ORCID iD
Author: Jens Madsen
Author: Howard W. Clark
Author: Antony D. Postle
Author: Ganapathy Senthil Murugan ORCID iD
Editor: Gerard L. Cote

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