Imaging systems are becoming essential PAT and QA tools. Alan Bates and Tom Greenwell, Analytik, describe the applications for rapid multispectral imaging.
Multispectral imaging can unlock valuable information on both the quality and safety of pharmaceutical materials. Parameters measurable by the technique, such as colour, texture, gloss, shape and size, provide useful information on a finished product, on the raw materials or on the manufacturing process itself.
Multispectral imaging provides a rapid quality assessment of uniform and inhomogeneous samples alike by combining information on all of the above parameters automatically in just a few seconds, requiring no sample preparation and leaving the material intact.