Abstract
Pneumonia is responsible for high mortality rates around the world, and its major treatment is based on antibiotic treatment. Antimicrobial resistance has been increasing in the last years, resulting in relevant public health concern. A promising alternative for pneumonia is antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether 808 nm wavelength is able to be transmitted through the biological tissues of the thoracic wall and be delivered in enough energy inside the cage to activate indocyanine green and promote photodynamic response. A light source panel was developed composed of 200 lasers centered at 808 nm with an irradiance of 77.8 ± 10.0mW/cm2 and tested in an ex vivo thoracic cage model. Monte Carlo simulations were used to understand the photon migration through all the tissues at the thoracic wall. It was observed that tissues responsible for the major absorption of photons are the skin and subcutaneous fat. Experimental measurement of the irradiance was obtained after the light pass-through ex vivo pig thoracic cage, obtaining 3% to 5% of the emitted irradiance. Finally, it was observed that even with 3% of the initial irradiance, a 99.9% reduction of the Streptococcus pneumoniae was successfully achieved after 42.6minutes of irradiation.
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