ABSTRACT
Reported by Herschel in 1800, the near-infrared (NIR) region was ignored until the late 1950s. Publications describing pharmaceutical applications appeared approximately 10 years later, with the majority appearing since 1986. Reviews of NIR spectroscopy were published in the early 1990s [1,2] and contain references to earlier reviews. Several texts of NIR are also available [3—6]. Ciurczak published a comprehensive review of pharmaceutical applications [7], and several papers by others discuss topics in pharmaceuticals [8-11].
