The Mechanism of Photofrin® Photobleaching and Its Consequences for Photodynamic Dosimetry

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-144

  Georgakoudi, Irene ^a   Nichols, Michael G ^b   Foster, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; PHOTOFRIN II; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

DIHEMATOPORPHYRIN ETHER; HEMATOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031050527     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb01889.x     Document Type: Article

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