Publications by Tanja Gabrecht

Low dose endoluminal photodynamic therapy improves murine T cell-mediated colitis

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht, François André Borle, Dominique Velin

Background and study aims: Low dose photodynamic therapy (LDPDT) may modify the mucosal immune response and may thus provide a therapy for Crohn's disease. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of this technique in a murine T cell-mediated colitis model. ...

2011

Autofluorescence bronchoscopy: quantification of inter-patient variations of fluorescence intensity

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht, Blaise Lovisa

Autofluorescence (AF) from bronchial tissue is increasingly used for the endoscopic detection of early bronchial neoplasia. Several imaging systems are commercially available, all detecting the absolute or relative AF intensity and/or spectral contrasts be ...

Springer-Verlag2009

In vivo time-resolved spectroscopy of the human bronchial early cancer autofluorescence

Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht, Pascal Uehlinger

Time-resolved measurements of tissue autofluorescence (AF) excited at 405 nm were carried out with an optical-fiber-based spectrometer in the bronchi of 11 patients. The objectives consisted of assessing the lifetime as a new tumor/normal (T/N) tissue cont ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2009

Autofluorescence detection of tumors in the human lung - spectroscopical measurements in situ, in an in vivo model and in vitro

Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht

To detect bronchial carcinoma by autofluorescence, we measured the spectra of tumor and normal tissue in situ, in an in vivo model and in vitro by fiber optic spectrometer and two-dimensional resolved microspectroscopy. The in situ measurements were perfor ...

Elsevier2008

Comparison of ALA- and ALA hexyl-ester-induced PpIX depth distribution in human skin carcinoma

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Tanja Gabrecht

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) based on the use of photoactivable porphyrins, such as protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), induced by the topical application of amino-levulinic acid (ALA) or its derivatives, ALA methyl-ester (m-ALA), is a treatment for superficial basal ...

Elsevier2008

Improvement of the specificity of cancer detection by autofluorescence imaging in the tracheo-bronchial tree using backscattered violet light

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht

Autofluorescence bronchoscopy (AFB) is a highly sensitive tool for the detection of early bronchial cancers. However, its specificity remains limited due to primarily false positive results induced by hyperplasia, metaplasia and inflammation. We have inves ...

Elsevier2008

Design of an endoscopic optical reference to be used for autofluorescence bronchoscopy with a commercially available diagnostic autofluorescence endoscopy (DAFE) system

Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht, Blaise Lovisa, François André Borle

We present the design of a sterilizable optical reference to characterize and quantify the inter-patient variations in tissue autofluorescence during autofluorescence bronchoscopy with Richard Wolf's diagnostic autofluorescence endoscopy (DAFE) system. The ...

Institute of Physics2007

Blue-violet excited autofluorescence spectroscopy and imaging of normal and cancerous human bronchial tissue after formalin fixation

Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht

Autofluorescence (AF) imaging is a powerful tool for the detection of (pre-)neoplastic lesions in the bronchi. Several endoscopic imaging systems exploit the spectral and intensity contrast of AF between healthy and (pre-)neoplastic bronchial tissues, yet, ...

Wiley-Blackwell2007

Optimized autofluorescence bronchoscopy using additional backscattered red light

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Tanja Gabrecht

Autofluorescence bronchoscopy (AFB) has been shown to be a highly sensitive tool for the detection of early endobronchial cancers. When excited with blue-violet light, early neoplasia in the bronchi tend to show a decrease of autofluorescence in the green ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2007

Autofluorescence bronchoscopy: Clinical experience with an optimized system in head and neck cancer patients

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Tanja Gabrecht, Blaise Lovisa

Elsevier2007