Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Experimental Tumors in Hematoporphyrin Derivative-Sensitized Mice

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-236

  Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a   Canti, Gianfranco ^b   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Taroni, Paola ^a   Valentini, Gianluca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DBA MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE; HALF LIFE TIME; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; HALF-LIFE; HEMATOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0031196462     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb08648.x     Document Type: Article

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