Product Description: This book contains contributions from participants at a Porphyrin Photosensitization Workshop held in Washington DC on 28-29 September, 1981. There had been several prior such gatherings during 1979 and 1980, but the 1981 meeting was the most extensive to date with almost 200 attending...read more

Product Description: The use of porphyrins for localization and photodynamic therapy of neoplastic disease has been the topic of several international symposia, reviews and books during the preceeding five years. The literature on this topic has continued to grow, as have numbers of presentations at national and international meetings relating to photobiology, chemistry, and lasers...read more

Here's the resource Radiology calls "an ideal introduction to interventional radiology"―back in a thoroughly updated New Edition! Readers will achieve successful outcomes for the most common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with its clear, step-by-step guidance. More than 200 line diagrams and clinical photographs make complex information easy to understand and apply.Focuses on the skills essential to performing safe and effective interventional radiologic procedures. Examines general principles as well as vascular and non-vascular interventions. Helps readers resolve problems with a troubleshooting guide for each procedure. Includes discussions of clinical indications, consent issues, and post-procedural care. Highlights key facts and technical recommendations with tip boxes and warning boxes throughout. Includes selected references at the end of each procedure.New chapters on Haemostasis and Fibroid Embolism as well as Non-Invasive Vascular Imaging, which examines topics such as Doppler color flow, the new generation of duplex equipment, CT angiography, and MR angiography. Expanded coverage of non-vascular procedures and techniques, esophageal stent insertion, biliary biopsy, respiratory intervention, angioplasty and stenting, percutaneous closure devices, catheter design, and more.

Product Description: Signaling Pathways; Localization; New Sensitizers; ALA; Clinical PDT; Dosimetry; Vascular Responses; Imaging.

Product Description: This two-volume text provides a summary of studies relating to the use of photosensitizing agents in the diagnosis and therapy of cancer. This interesting work describes synthesis of new sensitizers, photochemical and photobiological properties of dyes currently used for photodynamic therapy, plus those being examined with a view toward providing therapeutic advantages...read more

Product Description: Book by Kessel, David