Medical Imaging Monitors Pharmaceutical Process Health

PharmaManufacturing.com
Tomography is widely used in medical imaging, but also is becoming a useful PAT tool for process development and optimization. In this article, Ken Primrose, principal of Industrial Tomography Systems, discusses electrical resistance tomography (ERT) and its implications for pharmaceutical manufacturing.
By Ken Primrose, Industrial Tomography Systems It’s relatively easy to get on-line data from a point source in a process vessel. But the data are of little value unless your liquor is homogeneous, so that the sensor sees a representative sample of the contents. And how do you know if you have perfect mixing? Scanning the whole volume would be much more valuable, and that’s just what a new technology – electrical process tomography (ERT) – does.

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