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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2017
Immunolight, Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Mark Oldham, Durham, NC (US);
Zakaryae Fathi, Raleigh, NC (US);
Wayne F. Beyer, Bahama, NC (US);
Harold Walder, Belville, NC (US);
Frederic A. Bourke, Jr., Greenwich, CT (US);
Mark Dewhirst, Durham, NC (US);
Neil L. Spector, Durham, NC (US);
Paul Yoon, Durham, NC (US);
Justus Adamson, Durham, NC (US);
David Alcorta, Durham, NC (US);
Kim Lyerly, Durham, NC (US);
Leihua Liu, Durham, NC (US);
Takuya Osada, Durham, NC (US);
IMMUNOLIGHT, LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A system for treating a diseased site in a human or animal body. The system includes a pharmaceutical carrier including one or more phosphors which are capable of emitting light into the diseased site upon interaction, a photoactivatable drug for intercalating into DNA of cells at the diseased site, one or more devices which infuse the diseased sited with the photoactivatable drug and the pharmaceutical carrier, an x-ray or high energy electron source, and a processor programmed to control a dose of x-rays or electrons to the diseased site for production of light inside the tumor to activate the photoactivatable drug.