Aerosol profile extracted from spacers as a determinant of actual dose

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2213-2218

  Verbanck, Sylvia ^a   Vervaet, Chris ^b   Schuermans, Daniël ^a   Vincken, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Dose; Metered dose inhalers; Spacers

Indexed keywords

SALBUTAMOL;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; METERED DOSE INHALER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; ALBUTEROL; METERED DOSE INHALERS;

EID: 17644363741     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11095-004-7673-7     Document Type: Article

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