Quantifying diffusion-controlled drug release from spherical devices using Monte Carlo simulations

Materials Science and Engineering C

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 763-768

  Hadjitheodorou, Amalia ^a   Kalosakas, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ICE HT/FORTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

Controlled drug release; Diffusion; Monte Carlo simulations; Stretched exponential release curves

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; DRUG CONCENTRATION; DRUG RELEASE; FICK'S SECOND LAW; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RELEASE KINETICS; RELEASE MECHANISM; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; WEIBULL FUNCTIONS;

DIFFUSION; SPHERES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DRUG;

CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; DRUG RELEASE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

DIFFUSION; DRUG LIBERATION; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 84871385248     PISSN: 09284931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2012.10.030     Document Type: Article

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