WST11 Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy Effect Monitoring by Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT) in Mice

Published in: Theranostics

Authors: Volker Neuschmelting, Kwanghee Kim, Jaber Malekzadeh-Najafabadi, Sylvia Jebiwott, Jaya Prakash, Avigdor Scherz, Jonathan A. Coleman, Moritz F. Kircher, Vasilis Ntziachristos

 

The research group studied vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy (VTP). They used laser to activate Tookad (WST11) photosensitizer in VTP using renal cancer mouse model to develop multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) monitoring method for VTP.

 

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