Abstract
This chapter discusses the various modalities of photomedicine, an interdisciplinary branch of medicine that involves the study and application of light with respect to health and disease. The following main concepts are covered: Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) for the treatment of cancer, PDT for bacterial infections, vascular PDT, photochemical internalisation, photochemical tissue bonding and the use of lasers in medicine.
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Kuimova, M. K., & Phillips, D. (2013). Photomedicine. In Applied Photochemistry (Vol. 9789048138302, pp. 331–347). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3830-2_9
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