Abstract
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) uses light to activate photosensitizive drug to yield oxidative injury to targeted tissues such as cancer. The ability of treatment light to penetrate a tissue and activate the drug that has accumulated in a target tissue depends on the tissue optical properties, especially the blood perfusion. An endoscopic spectroscopic probe was developed for monitoring esophageal and lung tissues and tested in patients in a pilot clinical study.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2283-2284 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Volume | 3 |
| State | Published - 2002 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 24th Annual Conference and the 2002 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES / EMBS) - Houston, TX, United States Duration: Oct 23 2002 → Oct 26 2002 |
Keywords
- Photodynamic therapy
- Spectroscopy
- Tissue optics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics