Optical investigation of diffusion of levofloxacin mesylate in agarose hydrogel

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Tan, Shuaixia ^a,b   Dai, Hongjun ^a,b   Wu, Juejie ^a,c   Zhao, Ning ^a   Zhang, Xiaoli ^a   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agarose hydrogel; Diffusion; Electronic speckle pattern interferometry; Levofloxacin mesylate

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; AGAROSE HYDROGEL; DIFFUSION BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DRUG TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC SPECKLE PATTERN INTERFEROMETRY; LEVOFLOXACIN; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; POLYMER CHAINS; RETARDANCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HYDROGELS; INTERFEROMETRY; SPECKLE;

DIFFUSION;

OFLOXACIN; SEPHAROSE;

CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDROGEL; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LETTER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY;

DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYDROGELS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; OFLOXACIN; SEPHAROSE;

EID: 74049117634     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3227034     Document Type: Article

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