Cooperative Clinical Trial of Photodynamic Therapy for Early Gastric Cancer With Photofrin Injection® and YAG‐OPO Laser
Author(s) -
Seishiro Mimura,
Hiroyuki Narahara,
Toshio Hirashima,
Hisayuki Fukutomi,
Akira Nakahara,
Hiromasa Kashimura,
Hirofumi Matsui,
Hiroshi Tanimura,
Yugo Nagai,
Shigeru Suzuki,
Yoko Murata,
Kazunari Yoshida,
Kaichi Isono,
Teruo Kozu,
Hiroko Ide,
Harubumi Kato
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1029-0516
pISSN - 1026-714X
DOI - 10.1155/dte.4.165
Subject(s) - photodynamic therapy , photosensitivity , photosensitizer , medicine , laser , laser light , cancer , dermatology , optoelectronics , optics , photochemistry , chemistry , materials science , physics , organic chemistry
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) treats malignant tumors using photosensitizers and light. We employed a new pulse laser as the excitation light source for PDT, i.e. an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) system pumped by a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, because it provides extremely high peak power.
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