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- Title
Image Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Blending Processes and the Determination of an End Point by Using a Portable Near-Infrared Imaging Device Based on a Polychromator-Type Near-Infrared Spectrometer with a High-speed and High-Resolution Photo Diode Array Detector
- Authors
Kodai Murayama; Daitaro Ishikawa; Takuma Genkawa; Hiroyuki Sugino; Makoto Komiyama; Yukihiro Ozaki
- Abstract
In the present study we have developed a new version (ND-NIRs) of a polychromator-type near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer with a high-resolution photo diode array detector, which we built before (D-NIRs). The new version has four 5 W halogen lamps compared with the three lamps for the older version. The new version also has a condenser lens with a shorter focal point length. The increase in the number of the lamps and the shortening of the focal point of the condenser lens realize high signal-to-noise ratio and high-speed NIR imaging measurement. By using the ND-NIRs we carried out the in-line monitoring of pharmaceutical blending and determined an end point of the blending process. Moreover, to determinate a more accurate end point, a NIR image of the blending sample was acquired by means of a portable NIR imaging device based on ND-NIRs. The imaging result has demonstrated that the mixing time of 8 min is enough for homogeneous mixing. In this way the present study has demonstrated that ND-NIRs and the imaging system based on a ND-NIRs hold considerable promise for process analysis.
- Subjects
INFRARED imaging equipment; POLYCHROMATORS; HIGH performance liquid chromatography; ULTRAVIOLET-visible spectroscopy; INDIUM gallium arsenide
- Publication
Molecules, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 3, p4007
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules20034007