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| Author(s): |
Lilian Tan Moriyama
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2011-06-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato;
Luciano Bachmann;
Andrea Simone Stucchi de Camargo Alvarez Bernardez;
Lilia Coronato Courrol;
Cleber Renato Mendonça
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| Advisor: | Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato |
| Abstract | |
The determination of light distribution within biological tissues is important for applications such as photodynamic therapy and photodiagnostics. Most applications use light that reaches the tissue surface and propagates along the depth. The combination of absorption and scattering leads to light intensity profiles which determines the therapeutic action. Considering photodynamic therapy, necrosis contour is determined by the threshold intensity. Therefore it is quite important to assure intensity above the threshold at the region where necrosis is desired. This determination involves the knowledge of light distribution. In this study, we have developed an empirical method to determine light distribution in optical phantom. This method is based on experimental measurements of light intensity as a function of position inside the medium. The data were collected for a collimated narrow laser beam and arranged in a tridimensional matrix. Using this matrix, simple mathematical operations were used to simulate different conditions of irradiation geometry. Comparison between experimental measurements and mathematical simulations show that our method can be used to recover light distribution in biological tissue for any condition of illumination, since we have previously performed simple measurements in a sample using a narrow beam. In vivo experiments showed that this method can be very useful to the determination of photodynamic therapy dosimetry. (AU) | |