Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial
infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to treat a wide range of medical conditions,
including wet age-related macular degeneration psoriasis, atherosclerosis, viral infection …

This review captures the synthesis, assembly, properties, and applications of copper
chalcogenide NCs, which have achieved significant research interest in the last decade due …

Background. Indocyanine green (ICG) is a dye used in medicine since the mid-1950s for a
variety of applications in in cardiology, ophthalmology, and neurosurgery; however, its …

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the recent surgical intraoperational
applications of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging methods, the basics of the …

Singlet oxygen, O2 (a1Δg), the lowest excited electronic state of molecular oxygen, has
been known to the scientific community for∼ 80 years. It has a characteristic chemistry that …

Multifunctional antibacterial photodynamic therapy is a promising method to combat regular
and multidrug‐resistant bacteria. In this work, eosin Y (EY)‐based antibacterial polycations …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of cancer treatment that leads to the disintegration
of cancer cells and has developed significantly in recent years. The clinically used …

Fluorophores are potentially useful for in vivo cancer diagnosis. Using relatively inexpensive
and portable equipment, optical imaging with fluorophores permits real-time detection of …

New antibacterial strategies are required in view of the increasing resistance of bacteria to
antibiotics. One promising technique involves the photodynamic inactivation of bacteria …