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Emerging therapies

Emerging therapies

Oxygen-delivering nanodroplets enhance the efficacy of photodynamic therapy

27 Nov 2021 Jigar Dubal 
Oxygen-enhanced PDT
Treatment boost: Nanodroplets embedded with photosensitizer (BPD), indocyanine green (ICG) and oxygen (left) increase the oxygenation of hypoxic tumours (right), enabling oxygen-enhanced photodynamic therapy. (Courtesy: Photoacoustics 10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100306)
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging cancer treatment that utilizes the photochemical interacti

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Jigar Dubal is a PhD contributor to Physics World. Jigar works in the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey, where he uses optical imaging techniques to characterize tumour response during radiotherapy. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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