Recognition of counterfeit medicines by near-infrared spectroscopy

Principal component analysis and multivariate image analysis were used to analyse the data.

Principal component analysis and multivariate image analysis were used to analyse the data.

Sulaf Assi and colleagues have developed a non-destructive method combining chemometrics and near-infrared spectroscopy to identify potential counterfeit medicines.

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Identification of counterfeit medicines from the Internet and the World market using near-infrared spectroscopy
Sulaf Assi, Robert A. Watt and Anthony C. Moffat
Anal. Methods
DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05227F

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