Conference proceeding
Design of a high yielding photonic light delivery system to be used in photodynamic therapy for esophageal cancer, with microwave antenna imprinted balloon catheter for oxygen enhancement
Proceedings of Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference, NanoBio06, v 2006
2006
Abstract
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive treatment with high effectiveness in the management of cancer of the upper gastrointestinal tract. A higher mortality rate associated with surgery and the higher morbidity in the older age group both make PDT a better treatment method for the treatment of esophageal cancer. However, limitations in the best docimetry protocols performance of PDT are due to ineffectiveness of the light delivery and in the unavailability of sufficient oxygen required for singlet oxygen generation to bring cellular death. The Introduction of an inexpensive high power semiconductor diode lasers for the light delivery system makes PDT efficient, low cost and portable. However, the metallic water cooling systems used in the existing semiconductor cooling designs make those systems non-flexible and cumbersome in size.
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- Title
- Design of a high yielding photonic light delivery system to be used in photodynamic therapy for esophageal cancer, with microwave antenna imprinted balloon catheter for oxygen enhancement
- Creators
- Amaranath Premasiri - Southern Methodist UniversityGary Evans - Southern Methodist UniversityGemunu Happawana - Southern Methodist UniversityArye Rosen - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference, NanoBio06, v 2006
- Conference
- ASME 2006 Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference (Irvine, California, 08 Jun 2006–09 Jun 2006)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33845782970
- Other Identifier
- 991022065616204721