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The technique is based on time correlated single photon counting to detect the fluorescence lifetime of NAD(P)H and FAD by FLIM and the phosphorescence lifetime of newly developed phosphors and photosensitizers by PLIM. For this, the photosensitizer TLD1433 from Theralase, which is based on a ruthenium (II) coordination complex, was used. TLD1433 which acts as a redox indicator was mainly found in cytoplasmatic organelles. The most important observation was that TLD1433 can be used as a phosphor to follow up local oxygen concentration and consumption during photodynamic therapy. Oxygen consumption was accompanied by a change in cell metabolism, observed by simultaneous FLIM/PLIM. The combination of autofluorescence-FLIM and phosphor-PLIM in luminescence lifetime microscopy provides new insights in light induced reactions.
As a first step towards enabling a complete prospective IPDT treatment-planning platform, we demonstrate use of our previously developed FullMonte tetrahedral Monte Carlo simulation engine for modeling of the interstitial fluence field due to intravesicular insertion of brief light sources. The goal is to enable a complete treatment planning and monitoring work flow analogous to that used in ionizing radiation therapy, including plan evaluation through dose-volume histograms and algorithmic treatment plan optimization.
FullMonte is to our knowledge the fastest open-source tetrahedral MC light propagation software. Using custom hardware acceleration, we achieve 4x faster computing with 67x better power efficiency for limited-size meshes compared to the software. Ongoing work will improve the performance advantage to 16x with unlimited mesh size, enabling algorithmic plan optimization in reasonable time.
Using FullMonte, we demonstrate significant new plan-evaluation capabilities including fluence field visualization, generation of organ dose-volume histograms, and rendering of isofluence surfaces for a representative bladder cancer mesh from a real patient. We also discuss the advantages of MC simulations for dose-volume histogram generation and the need for online personalized fluence-rate monitoring.
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