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Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations

• The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic was slowed by implemented social isolation measures and adaptation of the healthcare system. • Still, no effective treatments for severe lung complications are available for the most susceptible populations. • Optical theranostics methods can identify COVID...

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Autor principal: Nogueira, Marcelo Saito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7306734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32585401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101892
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description • The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic was slowed by implemented social isolation measures and adaptation of the healthcare system. • Still, no effective treatments for severe lung complications are available for the most susceptible populations. • Optical theranostics methods can identify COVID-19 pulmonary manifestations and provide automated and real-time control of the treatment dosimetry. • Optical methods are flexible for combination with existing medical devices and drug repurposing protocols. • Implementation of reliable and safe theranostics methods requires strong collaboration among researchers, industry and medical institutions.
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spelling pubmed-73067342020-06-22 Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations Nogueira, Marcelo Saito Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther Letter to the Editor • The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic was slowed by implemented social isolation measures and adaptation of the healthcare system. • Still, no effective treatments for severe lung complications are available for the most susceptible populations. • Optical theranostics methods can identify COVID-19 pulmonary manifestations and provide automated and real-time control of the treatment dosimetry. • Optical methods are flexible for combination with existing medical devices and drug repurposing protocols. • Implementation of reliable and safe theranostics methods requires strong collaboration among researchers, industry and medical institutions. Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7306734/ /pubmed/32585401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101892 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations
title Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations
title_full Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations
title_fullStr Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations
title_full_unstemmed Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations
title_short Optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for COVID-19 lung complications: Towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations
title_sort optical theranostics and treatment dosimetry for covid-19 lung complications: towards increasing the survival rate of vulnerable populations
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7306734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32585401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101892
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