Combined Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging to Guide Photothermal Cancer Therapy

Friday, March 30, 2007 4:00 p.m. in ETC 4.120 Jignesh Shah Department of Biomedical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin http://www.bme.utexas.edu Photothermal therapy is a targeted, non-invasive alternative to surgery for cancer treatment. Photothermal therapy works on the principle of converting light energy to heat energy, causing localized tumor necrosis. However, in order to…