An investigation of the fluorescence induced by topical application of 5-aminolaevulinic acid and methyl aminolaevulinate at different body sites on normal human skin

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-103

  Lesar, Andrea ^a   Ferguson, James ^a   Moseley, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 Aminolaevulinic acid; Fluorescence; Methyl aminolaevulinate; Photodynamic therapy; Protoporphyrin IX

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID METHYL ESTER; METXIV; PROTOPORPHYRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK; BODY REGIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY; STRATUM CORNEUM;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BACK; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FOREARM; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROTOPORPHYRINS; SKIN;

EID: 79954581793     PISSN: 15721000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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