Transforming a Targeted Porphyrin Theranostic Agent into a PET Imaging Probe for Cancer

Transforming a Targeted Porphyrin Theranostic Agent into a PET Imaging Probe for Cancer

<p>Porphyrin based photosensitizers are useful agents for photodynamic therapy (PDT) and fluorescence imaging of cancer. Porphyrins are also excellent metal chelators forming highly stable metallo-complexes making them efficient delivery vehicles for radioisotopes. Here we investigated the pos...

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Main Author: Jiyun Shi, Tracy W.B. Liu, Juan Chen, David Green, David Jaffray, Brian C. Wilson, Fan Wang, Gang Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ivyspring International Publisher 2011-01-01
Series:Theranostics
Online Access:http://www.thno.org/v01p0363.htm

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