Magnetic images of pharmaceutical dosage forms in the human gastrointestinal tract

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 7254-7257

  Baffa, O ^a   Cora L A ^b   Americo M F ^a   Fonseca, P R ^b   Oliveira, R B ^a   Miranda, J R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AC Biosusceptometry; Disintegration; Gastrointestinal tract; Magnetic images

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECOMPOSITION; GASTROENTEROLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

AC BIOSUSCEPTOMETRY (ACB); GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT (GIT) REGIONS; MAGNETIC IMAGES; MAGNETIC TABLETS;

DRUG DOSAGE;

EID: 33846923383     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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