dc.contributor.author | Agapiou, Agapios | en |
dc.contributor.author | Zorba, Eleni | en |
dc.contributor.author | Mikedi, Katerina | en |
dc.contributor.author | McGregor, L. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Spiliopoulou, C. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Statheropoulos, Miltiades K. | en |
dc.creator | Agapiou, Agapios | en |
dc.creator | Zorba, Eleni | en |
dc.creator | Mikedi, Katerina | en |
dc.creator | McGregor, L. | en |
dc.creator | Spiliopoulou, C. | en |
dc.creator | Statheropoulos, Miltiades K. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-21T06:16:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-21T06:16:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/55241 | |
dc.description.abstract | Field experiments were devised to mimic the entrapment conditions under the rubble of collapsed buildings aiming to investigate the evolution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the early dead body decomposition stage. Three pig carcasses were placed inside concrete tunnels of a search and rescue (SAR) operational field terrain for simulating the entrapment environment after a building collapse. The experimental campaign employed both laboratory and on-site analytical methods running in parallel. The current work focuses only on the results of the laboratory method using thermal desorption coupled to comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TD-GC × GC-TOF MS). The flow-modulated TD-GC × GC-TOF MS provided enhanced separation of the VOC profile and served as a reference method for the evaluation of the on-site analytical methods in the current experimental campaign. Bespoke software was used to deconvolve the VOC profile to extract as much information as possible into peak lists. In total, 288 unique VOCs were identified (i.e., not found in blank samples). The majority were aliphatics (172), aromatics (25) and nitrogen compounds (19), followed by ketones (17), esters (13), alcohols (12), aldehydes (11), sulfur (9), miscellaneous (8) and acid compounds (2). The TD-GC × GC-TOF MS proved to be a sensitive and powerful system for resolving the chemical puzzle of above-ground "scent of death". © 2015 Elsevier B.V.. | en |
dc.source | Analytica Chimica Acta | en |
dc.source.uri | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84931007026&doi=10.1016%2fj.aca.2015.04.024&partnerID=40&md5=cc43b9db76aefd6071f225cdc600ce15 | |
dc.subject | Decomposition | en |
dc.subject | human | en |
dc.subject | Humans | en |
dc.subject | controlled study | en |
dc.subject | priority journal | en |
dc.subject | procedures | en |
dc.subject | Article | en |
dc.subject | Animals | en |
dc.subject | animal | en |
dc.subject | devices | en |
dc.subject | diagnostic procedure | en |
dc.subject | Chromatography | en |
dc.subject | disaster | en |
dc.subject | Disasters | en |
dc.subject | Ketones | en |
dc.subject | analytic method | en |
dc.subject | Mass spectrometry | en |
dc.subject | chemical composition | en |
dc.subject | Swine | en |
dc.subject | Spectrometry | en |
dc.subject | building | en |
dc.subject | equipment design | en |
dc.subject | evolution | en |
dc.subject | Gas chromatography | en |
dc.subject | mass fragmentography | en |
dc.subject | Organic compounds | en |
dc.subject | victim | en |
dc.subject | Volatile organic compounds | en |
dc.subject | postmortem change | en |
dc.subject | Postmortem Changes | en |
dc.subject | volatile organic compound | en |
dc.subject | Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry | en |
dc.subject | ketone | en |
dc.subject | alcohol derivative | en |
dc.subject | aldehyde | en |
dc.subject | aliphatic compound | en |
dc.subject | aromatic compound | en |
dc.subject | cadaver | en |
dc.subject | Collapsed buildings | en |
dc.subject | Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography | en |
dc.subject | Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time of flight mass spectrometries | en |
dc.subject | Decay (organic) | en |
dc.subject | Desorption | en |
dc.subject | enzymatic degradation | en |
dc.subject | ester | en |
dc.subject | Experimental campaign | en |
dc.subject | Forensic chemistry | en |
dc.subject | forensic medicine | en |
dc.subject | Inductively coupled plasma | en |
dc.subject | Nitrogen compounds | en |
dc.subject | nitrogen derivative | en |
dc.subject | pig | en |
dc.subject | Pig carcass | en |
dc.subject | Smoke detectors | en |
dc.subject | structure collapse | en |
dc.subject | Suidae | en |
dc.subject | sulfur | en |
dc.subject | Thermal desorption | en |
dc.subject | Time of flight mass spectrometry | en |
dc.subject | Two dimensional gas chromatography | en |
dc.subject | Two-dimensional gas chromatography | en |
dc.subject | volatile agent | en |
dc.subject | Volatiles | en |
dc.title | Analysis of volatile organic compounds released from the decay of surrogate human models simulating victims of collapsed buildings by thermal desorption-comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time of flight mass spectrometry | en |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.aca.2015.04.024 | |
dc.description.volume | 883 | |
dc.description.startingpage | 99 | |
dc.description.endingpage | 108 | |
dc.author.faculty | 002 Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences | |
dc.author.department | Τμήμα Χημείας / Department of Chemistry | |
dc.type.uhtype | Article | en |
dc.description.notes | <p>Cited By :12</p> | en |
dc.source.abbreviation | Anal.Chim.Acta | en |
dc.contributor.orcid | Agapiou, Agapios [0000-0001-8371-0910] | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Statheropoulos, Miltiades K. [0000-0002-0658-3863] | |
dc.gnosis.orcid | 0000-0001-8371-0910 | |
dc.gnosis.orcid | 0000-0002-0658-3863 | |