Authentication of Medicines Using Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 417-430

  Chen, Cheng ^a   Zhang, Fengchao ^b   Barras, Jamie ^c   Althoefer, Kaspar ^c   Bhunia, Swarup ^b   Mandal, Soumyajit ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

counterfeit medicines; medicines authentication; nitrogen; NQR

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; CRIME; NITROGEN; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL FINGERPRINT; COUNTERFEIT MEDICINES; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS; PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY CHAINS; POLARIZATION ENHANCEMENT; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT;

NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE;

DRUG;

CHEMISTRY; MARKOV CHAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARDS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84976560659     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2015.2511763     Document Type: Article

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