title: Photon emission from normal and tumor human tissues.
abstract: Photon emission in the visible and near ultraviolet range by samples of human tissue removed during surgery has been measured by means of a low noise photomultiplier coupled to a data acquisition system. The results show that among the 25 analyzed samples the 9 from normal tissues had an emission rate of the order of some tens of photons/cm2 min, while most of the 16 tumor tissue samples had a very much higher rate.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Fisica, Università di Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grasso
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grillo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Musumeci
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Triglia
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodolico
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cammisuli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rinzivillo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fragati
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santuccio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodolico
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry*; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000737:chemistry; D011827:Radiation; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014018:Tissue Distribution / Q000528:radiation effects