Spectroscopic studies of drugs used in the treatment of malignant tumors in ophthalmology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4606, Issue , 2001, Pages 52-60

  Pascu, Mihail Lucian ^a   Carstocea, Benone ^b   Staicu, Angela ^a   Ionita, Marcel ^b   Truica, Sorina ^a   Pascu, Ruxandra Angela ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

^b Central Military Hospital Bucharest   (Romania)

^c CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Absorption and fluorescence spectra; Fluorouracyl; Metallo porphyrines; Photolysis; Porphyrines

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOLYSIS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TUMORS; XENON;

CYTOSTATICS;

DRUG THERAPY;

EID: 0035769494     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.446717     Document Type: Article

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