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Measuring tablet disintegration is essential for quality control purposes; however, no established method adequately accounts for the timeframe or small volumes of the medium associated with the dissipation process for fast disintegrating tablets (FDTs) in the mouth. We hypothesised that digital imaging to measure disintegration in a low volume of the medium might discriminate between different types of FTD formulation. A digital image disintegration analysis (DIDA) was designed to measure tablet disintegration in 0.05–0.7 mL of medium. A temperature-controlled black vessel was 3D-printed to match the dimensions of each tablet under investigation. An overhead camera recorded the mean grey value of the tablet as a measure of the percentage of the formulation which remained intact as a function of time. Imodium Instants, Nurofen Meltlets and a developmental freeze-dried pilocarpine formulation were investigated. The imaging approach proved effective in discriminating the disintegration of different tablets (p < 0.05). For example, 10 s after 0.7 mL of a saliva simulant was applied, 2.0 ± 0.3% of the new pilocarpine tablet remained, whereas at the same time point, 22 ± 9% of the Imodium Instants had not undergone disintegration (temperature within the vessel was 37 ± 0.5°C). Nurofen Meltlets were observed to swell and showed a percentage recovery of 120.7 ± 2.4% and 135.0 ± 6.1% when 0.05 mL and 0.7 mL volumes were used, respectively. Thus, the new digital image disintegration analysis, DIDA, reported here effectively evaluated fast disintegrating tablets and has the potential as a quality control method for such formulations.   Supplementary Information  The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1208/s12249-021-02080-0.

Digital Image Disintegration Analysis: a Novel Quality Control Method for Fast Disintegrating Tablets