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6 June 2002Effects of low-fluence-rate PDT on glioma spheroids
Steen J. Madsen,1 Robin M. Rodenbush,2 Chung-Ho Sun,3 Bruce J. Tromberg,3 Henry Hirschberg4
1Univ. of Nevada/Las Vegas and Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Ctr. (United States) 2Univ. of Nevada/Las Vegas (United States) 3Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (United States) 4Rikshospitalet and Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (Norway)
The effectiveness of low-fluence rate PDT on human glioma spheroids incubated in 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or hexyl- ALA, is investigated. Spheroid survival is monitored following PDT at representative drug concentrations, light fluences and fluence rates. It is shown that, for above threshold fluences, significant PDT response can be obtained at a fluence rate of 5 mW cm-2. At this fluence rate, the response of human glioma spheroids to PDT with lipophilic ester derivatives, such as hexyl-ALA, is equivalent to that obtained with ALA, however, this equivalency is observed for ester concentrations 20 times lower than the parent compound. The efficacy of PDT is significantly reduced at a sub-threshold fluence of 25 J cm-2. Spheroid response appears to be somewhat fluence rate dependent at sub-threshold fluences - survival is marginally poorer at the higher fluence rate (25 mW cm-2) investigated. In addition, the efficacy of PDT at 25 J cm-2 depends significantly on photosensitizer concentration at the lowest fluence rate investigated (5 mW cm-2).
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Steen J. Madsen, Robin M. Rodenbush, Chung-Ho Sun, Bruce J. Tromberg, Henry Hirschberg, "Effects of low-fluence-rate PDT on glioma spheroids," Proc. SPIE 4612, Optical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection: Mechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XI, (6 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.469347