Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive therapeutic modality that has gained
great attention in the past years as a new therapy for cancer treatment. PDT uses …

In the past 100 years, external beam energy for the treatment of cancer has continually
evolved. Two main modes have been developed. The first is radiotherapy which involves …

Many in vivo biological techniques, such as fluorescence imaging, photodynamic therapy,
and optogenetics, require light delivery into biological tissues. The limited tissue penetration …

Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide and several anticancer therapies take
advantage of the ability of reactive oxygen species to kill cancer cells. Added to this is the …

Metronomic photodynamic therapy (mPDT) is a form of PDT that induces cancer cell death
by intermittent continuous irradiation with a relatively weak power of light for a long duration …

Cherenkov radiation has recently emerged as an interesting phenomenon for a number of
applications in the biomedical sciences. Its unique properties, including broadband …

5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is an amino acid derivative and a precursor of protoporphyrin
IX (PpIX). The photophysical feature of PpIX is clinically used in photodynamic diagnosis …

The translation of photodynamic therapy (PDT) to the clinical setting has primarily been
limited to easily accessible and/or superficial diseases, for which traditional light delivery …

The relevance of personalized medicine, aimed at a more individualized drug therapy, has
inspired research into nano-based concerted diagnosis and therapeutics (theranostics). As …

Photo-triggerable liposomes are considered nowadays as promising drug delivery devices
due to their potential to release encapsulated drugs in a spatial and temporal manner. In this …