Pharmaceutical

Imaging Particle Analysis - Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Applications

FlowCAM^® can play a valuable role in drug research and development - helping to bring timely drugs to market faster. In the testing phase, FlowCAM can provide a feedback loop to determine the exact size and shape of biological material and compounds, making it an important tool for stability studies.

In manufacturing, FlowCAM can be used to provide continuous monitoring, for process control, and to test batch samples for quality control.

FlowCAM Pharmaceutical Applications:

Protein Aggregation: quantification and characterization
Characterization and QC of IV fluids
Microencapsulation: formulation and quality control
Characterization of dry API's, fillers and excipients
Characterization of dry and rehydrated lyophilized particulates

Silicon droplet (left) and air droplet (right) as imaged by FlowCAM.

The FlowCAM can be used to characterize dry products that have been suspended in fluid media. Anything from suspended API's to column packing material can be characterized by FlowCAM. It is the FlowCAM's versatility that allows it to be applied to a wide variety of fields.

FlowCAM's VisualSpreadsheet^© software provides sophisticated pattern recognition capabilities which can automatically characterize different particle types in a heterogeneous solution. Additionally, with FlowCAM's color imaging capability and high quality images, even subtle determinations such as the difference between an air droplet and a silicon droplet can be determined.