With over 100 illustrations, Volume 1 addresses the core disciplines of pharmaceutics (absorption, PK, excipients, tablet dosage forms, and packaging), and explores the challenges and paradigms of pharmaceutics.
Key topics in Volume 1 include:
- principles of drug absorption, chemical kinetics, and drug stability
- pharmacokinetics
- the effect of route of administration and distribution on drug action
- in vivo imaging of dose forms: gamma scintigraphy, PET imaging NMR, MRI, etc.
- powder technology
- excipient design and characterization
- preformulation
- optimization techniques in pharmaceutical formulation and processing
- disperse and surfactant systems
- the solid state, tablet dosage forms, coating processes, and hard and soft shell capsules
- parenteral products
