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Personalised dosing: Printing a dose of one's own medicine

Mustafa Alomari1, Fatima H Mohamed1, Abdul W Basit1

  • 1UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London WC1 N 1AX, UK.

International Journal of Pharmaceutics
|December 16, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Ink-jet printingNarrow therapeutic indexPersonalised medicinePharmaceuticalPiezoelectric printer

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