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Relative tissue dose threshold values with respect to the tumor’s minimum threshold value for each tissue and each photosensitizer. The white and grey matters’ maximum thresholds were scaled down by 10 to increase PDT safety.
| Tissue Type | Photosensitizer | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photofrin | ALA | SnET | ALCIPc | |||||
| dmin | dmax | dmin | dmax | dmin | dmax | dmin | dmax | |
| Tumor | 1 | ∞ | 1 | ∞ | 1 | ∞ | 1 | ∞ |
| Grey Matter | 0 | 0.16 | 0 | 0.67 | 0 | 0.13 | 0 | 1.32 |
| White Matter | 0 | 0.13 | 0 | 72 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 4.15 |
| Scalp & Skull | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| CSF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 720 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 41.5 |
