• DocumentCode
    2977086
  • Title

    Iontophoretic drug delivery models

  • Author

    Pang, G.K.H. ; Qiao, Dapeng

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    21-24 Feb. 2011
  • Firstpage
    331
  • Lastpage
    334
  • Abstract
    Iontophoresis relies on active transportation of the charged medication agent within an electric field and delivers medication transdermally. It uses electric current to ionize drug molecules and propel them through the skin. It is a kind of transdermal drug delivery method, and hence the method has to handle the variability in skin characteristics of a patient. In this paper, a preliminary study based on the different models of the skin impedance is carried out. The purpose is to examine several skin models for iontophoretic drug delivery. This paper carries out a simulation study based on three different skin impedance models.
  • Keywords
    bioelectric phenomena; drug delivery systems; physiological models; skin; iontophoretic drug delivery models; skin impedance models; Capacitors; Drug delivery; Drugs; Epidermis; Impedance; Integrated circuit modeling; Non-invasive drug delivery; electrically-assisted delivery; iontophoresis; skin impedance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biomedical Engineering (MECBME), 2011 1st Middle East Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sharjah
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6998-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MECBME.2011.5752133
  • Filename
    5752133