Vaccinia virus-mediated melanin production allows MR and optoacoustic deep tissue imaging and laser-induced thermotherapy of cancer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3316-3320

  Stritzker, Jochen ^a,b   Kirscher, Lorenz ^b   Scadeng, Miriam ^c   Deliolanis, Nikolaos C ^d,e   Morscher, Stefan ^d,f   Symvoulidis, Panagiotis ^d   Schaefer, Karin ^d   Zhang, Qian ^a   Buckel, Lisa ^b   Hess, Michael ^b   Donat, Ulrike ^b   Bradley, William G ^g   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^d   Szalay, Aladar A ^a,b,h  

^a GENELUX CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION IPA   (Germany)

^f ITHERA MEDICAL GMBH   (Germany)

^g UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Personalized medicine; Photoacoustic; Translational medicine; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

ONCOLYTIC VACCINIA VIRUS; ONCOLYTIC VIRUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LASER THERMOTHERAPY; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLYTIC VIROTHERAPY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELANINS; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 84874450604     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216916110     Document Type: Article

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