Rapid quantification of methamphetamine: using attenuated total reflectance fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and chemometrics.

In Australia and increasingly worldwide, methamphetamine is one of the most commonly seized drugs analysed by forensic chemists. The current well-established GC/MS methods used to identify and quantify methamphetamine are lengthy, expensive processes, but often rapid analysis is requested by underco...

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Main Authors: Juanita Hughes, Godwin Ayoko, Simon Collett, Gary Golding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3728355?pdf=render