Janie Dubois

The author assesses the power and limitations of NIR chemical imaging and its future.

NIR chemical imaging is based on the same principles as NIR spectroscopy, but uses a focal plane array detector in place of a single detector element to capture the spectral signature at tens of thousands of spatially resolved positions simultaneously.

Vibrational spectroscopy, which encompasses near-infrared, mid-infrared and Raman spectroscopy, is an important analytical tool in the pharma industry.