Gloss measurement in detection of surface quality of pharmaceutical tablets: a case study of screening of genuine and counterfeit antimalaria tablets

Abstract Background The surface quality of pharmaceutical tablets plays an important role, especially in the drug release of a tablet and hence affects the bioavailability of the drug. Furthermore, important tablet’s properties such as coating uniformity and mechanical integrity that can be pr...

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Main Authors: Prince Bawuah, Pertti Pääkkönen, Kai-Erik Peiponen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2017-06-01
Series:Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41476-017-0046-8