Surface Surgery
CSMA's Bimonthly Problem Solving Column

Surface Surgery is published bimonthly in Pharmaceutical Technology Europe.
Aimed at solving problems within the pharmaceutical industry using surface analysis techniques, readers are invited to submit questions to Pharmaceutical Technology Europe for consideration.

The first surface surgery article highlighting how tablet discoloration can be investigated by ToFSIMS (Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry), can now be viewed online following this link

The second surface surgery article highlighting how DSIMS (Dynamic Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) and 3DP (3D Non-Contact Surface Profiling) can be utilised to analyse drug eluting stents (DES) can now be viewed online following this link

The third surface surgery highlighting residual gas analysis of packaged pharmaceutical products can now be viewed by following this link

For further information please contact Justine Bentley, e-mail: justinebentley@csma.ltd.uk, tel: +44 (0)1782 764269.

[March 2008]