NEW RESOURCES:

• Medical Device LinkTop 10 Technologies 2005 - (pdf)
  (Cover Story) MD&DI’s Top Ten technologies (MDDI archive, Jul 05)
  
  
• Hamblin- Merocyanine 540 fro PDT Unactivation Staphylococcus aureus - (pdf)
  Use of Merocyanine 540 for Photodynamic Inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus Planktonic and Biofilm Cells -- Lin et al. 70 (11): 6453 -- Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  
  
• Hamblin - Cell Photosensitizer Binding Microbial Photoinactivation - (pdf)
  Effect of Cell-Photosensitizer Binding and Cell Density on Microbial Photoinactivation -- Demidova and Hamblin 49 (6): 2329 -- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

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• www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1476-5810.2004.00052.x?journalCode=vco
  Non-coherent light for photodynamic therapy of superficial tumours in animals K. B. Reeds1, T. D. Ridgway1*, R. G. Higbee1 and M. D. Lucroy1 Abstract Cultured 9L cells were incubated with varying concentrations of pheophorbide-a-hexyl ether (HPPH) and then exposed to 665-nm red light from a non-coherent light...
• www.devicelink.com/emdm/archive/02/05/047.html
  Procurement criteria should not be neglected during product development, agrees Mark Gart, managing director of LumaCare Div., Ci-Tec (Newport Beach, CA, USA), a start-up company that develops photodynamic therapy products. "The focus there is on return on investment," he notes...

Organizations and Associations:

• Photobiology Online
  
• The National Psoriasis Foundation
  
• The American Academy of Dermatology
  
• NCI Fact Sheet: Photodynamic Therapy
  
• BioScience Group
  
• SDC - Society of Dyers & Colourists - PDT Paper

Published Papers:

• Clinical PDT: A Review of Progress in Clinical Photodynamic Therapy
   
• SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2078 : Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer
  
• Lasers in Surged and Medicine 4: 73-77
  
• Immune modulation using photodynamic therapy
  
• A new light source for PDT of skin lesions
  
• Photodynamic therapy of malignant mesothelioma of pleura
  
• Barrett's esophagus: Photodynamic therapy for ablation of dysplasia, reduction of specialized mucosa and treatment of superficial esophageal cancer
  
• Photodynamic Therapy of Arteries: Preservation of mechanical Integrity
  
• Far-red-absorbing photosensitizes their use in the photodynamic therapy of tumors
  
• Photodynamic decontamination of blood for transfusion
  
• Non-oncologic potentials for photodynamic therapy
  
• Performance of a non-laser light source for photodynamic therapy
  
• Lethal photosensitization of Nelicobacter species
  
• Assessment of Non-Coherent Light Sources for Photodynamic Therapy
  
• Clinically relevant technology in photodynamic therapy and photodynamic diagnosis
  
• Antimicrobial and antiviral activity of porphyrin photosensitization

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