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. 2023 Apr 6;15(4):1170. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15041170

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The mechanism of PDT: when PSs are irradiated by light, they transfer from singlet ground state (S0) to excited singlet state (S1), followed by intersystem crossing to excited triplet state (T1). ROS are generated by transferring energy from T1 via Type I and Type II reactions.