5. Pharmaceutical applications
5.1. NIR Chemical Imaging
NIR Chemical Imaging (NIR-CI) has been applied to a
number of process and quality related investigations for
pharmaceutical products, including quality assessment,
high-throughput analysis, coating thickness, compositional
information, remote identification, blend homogeneity,
extraction of process related effects and counterfeit drug
identification. Table 2 presents a summary of the published
applications of NIR-CI to pharmaceutical analysis since
2001. The following sections describe each application in
more detail.