“…Figure 11. Rotating disk close-up (Korzhova, 2009) For many years the characterization of solid drugs has been performed using rotating disk intrinsic dissolution rate (IDR) apparatus, involving studies of dissolution-pH rate profiles in the presence of binding agents, various excipients/delivery vehicles, and buffers (Amidon, Lee & Topp, 2000;Jinno, Oh, Crison & Amidon., 2000;Li, Doyle, Metz, Royce & Serajuddin, 2005;Li, M. Wong, et al, 2005;McNamara & Amidon, 1986, 1988Mooney, Mintun, Himmelstein & Stella, 1981a, 1981bSerajuddin & Jarowski, 1984, 1985Sheng, Kasim, Chandrasekharan & L., 2006;Southard, Green, Stella & Himmelstein, 1992;Yu, Carlin, Amidon & Hussain, 2004).…”