ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics: An interesting tool to discriminate and characterize counterfeit medicines

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 181-189

  Custers, D ^a,b   Cauwenbergh, T ^a   Bothy, J L ^a   Courselle, P ^a   De Beer, J O ^a   Apers, S ^b   Deconinck, E ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy; Chemometrics; Counterfeit medicines; Fingerprints; Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy

Indexed keywords

COUNTERFEIT DRUG; PLACEBO; SILDENAFIL; TADALAFIL;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG SCREENING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES;

COUNTERFEIT DRUGS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84930645898     PISSN: 07317085     EISSN: 1873264X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2014.11.007     Document Type: Article

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