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What's in that medicine? Exploiting the wavelength interval between the visible and thermal infrared for chemical imaging in pharmaceutical sciences.(MICROSCOPY SPECIAL EDITION)
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Advanced Imaging
- Article date:
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Dubois, Janie; Lewis, E. Neil
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* Spectroscopy
* NIR chemical imaging
* Pharmaceuticals
* Thermal imaging
Digital imaging in the visible (400 to 700 nm) spectral region now is commonplace with the availability of low-cost CCD and CMOS cameras and powerful data processing hardware and software. In machine vision, for example, it is used for product inspection, quality control, quality assurance and manufacturing automation.
More recently, infrared cameras traditionally used for thermal imaging or night vision applications (3,000 to 5,000 nm) also have gained acceptance as valuable productivity tools in a number of industries and, in most cases, the data processing ...