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High-magnification vascular imaging to reject false-positive sites in situ during Hexvix® fluorescence cystoscopy

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Photodynamic diagnostics in the urinary tract. Consensus paper of the Working Group for Oncology of the German Society for Urology

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Photodetection of early human bladder cancer based on the fluorescence of 5-aminolaevulinic acid hexylester-induced protoporphyrin IX: a pilot study

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Pavel Kucera

Exogenous administration of 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) is becoming widely used to enhance the endogenous synthesis of protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) in photodynamic therapy (PDT) and fluorescence photodetection (PD). Recently, results have shown that the chemi ...

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Time-resolved spectrofluorometer for clinical tissue characterization during endoscopy

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières

Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy has the potential to provide more information for the detection of early cancer than continuous wave spectroscopy. A new optical fiber-based spectrofluorometer for time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of biol. tis ...

American Institute of Physics1999