Fluorescence imaging during photodynamic therapy of experimental tumors in mice sensitized with disulfonated aluminum phthalocyanine

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 690-695

  Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Taroni, Paola ^a   Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Valentini, Gianluca ^a   Comelli, Daniela ^a   D'Andrea, Cosimo ^a   Angelini, Valentina ^b   Canti, Gianfranco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHTHALOCYANINE ALUMINUM;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; TUMOR;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; INDOLES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034335329     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)072<0690:FIDPTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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