Ultra low fluence rate photodynamic therapy: Simulation of light emitted by the Cerenkov effect

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8928, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gonzales, Jonathan ^a   Wang, Fred ^a   Zamora, Genesis ^a   Trinidad, Anthony ^a   Marcu, Laura ^b   Cherry, Simon ^b   Hirschberg, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERENKOV COUNTERS; CHARGED PARTICLES; NEUROSURGERY; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES;

CELL VIABILITY; CERENKOV RADIATION; CURRENT LIMITATION; DIELECTRIC MEDIUM; FLUENCE RATES; LIGHT ACTIVATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; VISIBLE RADIATIONS;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

EID: 84900017689     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2041631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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