Ultrasound backscatter microscopy/spectroscopy and optical coherence (Doppler) tomography for mechanism-specific monitoring of photodynamic therapy in vivo and in vitro

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4612, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 128-135

  Yang, Victor X D ^a,b,c   Gzarnota, Greg J ^b,c   Vitkin, I Alex ^a,c   Kolios, Mike ^a,c   Sherar, Michael ^a,c   de Boer, Johanes ^d   Tromberg, Bruce ^d   Wilson, Brian C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Blood flow; Imaging; Monitoring; Necrosis; Oncosis; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BLOOD; COHERENT LIGHT; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

SIGNAL INTENSITIES;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

EID: 0036401609     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.469342     Document Type: Article

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