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- Title
Photobleaching-based Dosimetry Predicts Deposited Dose in ALA-PpIX PDT of Rodent Esophagus.
- Authors
Chao Sheng; Jack Hoopes, P.; Hasan, Tayyaba; Pogue, Brian W.
- Abstract
An improved method to estimate dose to esophageal tissue was investigated in the setting of photodynamic therapy with aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) treatment. A model of treatment-induced edema in the esophagus mucosa proved to be a well controlled and useful way to test the dosimetry model, and the light from the treatment laser together with the PpIX fluorescence intensity could be quantified reliably in real time. Dosimetry calculations based upon the detected fluorescence and bleaching kinetics were used to calculate the “effective” dose to the tissue, and a correlation was shown to exist between this metric and the edema induced in the esophagus. The difference between animals with no detectable treatment effect and those with significant edema was predictable based upon the dose calculation. The underlying assumption in the interpretation of the data is that rapid photobleaching of PpIX occurs when there is ample oxygen supply, and this bleaching is not present when oxygen is limited. This leads to the prediction that integration of the light and drug dose, in intervals where appreciable photobleaching occurs, should provide a prediction of the relative dose of singlet oxygen produced. This detection system and rodent model can be used for prospective dosimetry studies that focus on optimization of esophageal PDT.
- Publication
Photochemistry & Photobiology, 2007, Vol 83, Issue 3, p738
- ISSN
0031-8655
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1562/2006-09-07-RA-1033