Part 1 INTRODUCTION Looking out the optical window: Physical principles and instrumentation of imaging in photodynamic therapy Hui Liu and Jonathan P. Celli ¿ Photochemistry and photophysics of PDT and photosensitizers Marcin Ptaszek ¿ Part 2 IN VITRO MICROSCOPY FOR PHOTOSENSITIZER LOCALIZATION IN CELLS ¿ Phthalocyanines in photodynamic therapy Heidi Abrahamse ¿ Singlet oxygen luminescence imaging: A prospective tool in bioscience? Michael Pfitzner, Jan C. Schlothauer, Lisheng Lin, Buhong Li, and Beate R¿der ¿ Microbial biofilms and antimicrobial photodynamic therapy Anil Kishen ¿ High-content imaging for photosensitizer screening Gisela M.F. Vaz, Mathias O. Senge, Sarah-Louise Ryan, and Anthony Davies ¿ Part 3 IN VITRO MICROSCOPY OF CELL DAMAGE AND DEATH PROCESSES AFTER PDT ¿ Enhanced efficacy of photodynamic therapy via an iron¿lysosome¿mitochondria connection: Studies with phthalocyanine 4 Anna-Liisa Nieminen, Hsin-I Hung, and John J. Lemasters ¿ Role of cell death pathways in response to photodynamic therapy in gliomas Leonardo Barcelos de Paula, Fernando Lucas Primo, and Antonio Claudio Tedesco ¿ In search of specific PDT photosensitizers: Subcellular localization and cell death pathways Tayana M. Tsubone, Christiane Pavani, Isabel O.
L. Bacellar, and Maur¿o S. Baptista ¿ Part 4 THERANOSTIC AGENTS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ¿ Quantum dots in PDT Ri¿ardas Rotomskis and Giedre Streckyte ¿ Tetrapyrrole-based theranostic combinations of photodynamic action and magnetic resonance imaging Duygu Ayd¿n Tekda¿, Devrim Atilla, Vefa Ahsen, and Ay¿e G¿l G¿rek ¿ Theranostic applications of photodynamic molecular beacons Wentao Song, Yang Zhou, and Jonathan F. Lovell ¿ Tumor-specific imaging and photodynamic therapy targeting the urokinase receptor Zafar Iqbal, Longguang Jiang, Zhuo Chen, Cai Yuan, Rui Li, Ke Zheng, Xiaolei Zhou, Jincan Chen, Ping Hu, and Mingdong Huang ¿ Part 5 SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING ¿ Vascular imaging in photodynamic therapy Bin Chen ¿ Photosensitizer activity imaging on the microscopic scale Steffen Hackbarth ¿ Bioluminescence imaging for monitoring the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy for infections in animal models Pawel Mroz and Michael R. Hamblin ¿ Part 6 CLINICAL IMAGING ¿ Imaging of photosensitizers in skin Marica B. Ericson, Danni Wang, Despoina Kantere, John Paoli, and Ann-Marie Wennberg ¿ Brain tumor imaging with ALA Herbert Stepp and Oliver Schnell ¿ PDT of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer with Hexylester Aminolevulinate: Optimization of the illumination wavelengths by fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging Matthieu Zellweger, Claude-Andr¿orret, Norbert Lange, Patrice Jichlinski, Hubert van den Bergh, and Georges Wagni¿s ¿ Endoscopic imaging and photodynamic therapy Harubumi Kato, Kinya Furukawa, Yasufumi Kato, Jitsuo Usuda, Kuniharu Miyajima, and Keishi Ohtani ¿ Spectroscopic imaging in prostate PDT Rozhin Penjweini, Brian C. Wilson, and Timothy C. Zhu ¿ Fluorescent-guided resection in clinical oncology Ron R.
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