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Phone: (905) 387-9711 X 67014
Office: Juravinski Cancer Centre, Room 4-35


 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

Research Interests

Biomedical optics with focus on photodynamic therapy dosimetry, optical diagnostics in vivo and modeling of light propagation in tissue. Radiation therapy with focus on 4D delivery of high dose rate brachytherapy.

Publications

Recent Publications

J.A. Russell, K.R. Diamond, T. Collins, H.F. Tiedje, J.E. Hayward, T.J. Farrell, M.S. Patterson and Q. Fang, 2008. "Characterization of time-domain fluorescence properties of Photofrin and delta-aminolevulinic acid induced protoporphyrin IX using single and two-photon excitation.", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 14,158-166.

D.C. Comsa, T.J. Farrell and M.S. Patterson, 2008. "Quantitative fluorescence imaging of point-like sources in small animals." Physics in Medicine and Biology, 53, 5797-5814.

P Sharma, TJ Farrell,  MS Patterson, G Singh, JR Wright, RK Sur and AJ Rainbow. 2009.  “In vitro survival of nonsmall cell lung cancer cells following combined treatments with ionizing radiation and Photofrin-mediated photodynamic therapy.” Photochemistry and Photobiology.  85 99-106

TY Tam, S Mukherjee, T.J. Farrell,  D Morgan and RK Sur. 2009. “Endoscopic brachytherapy for obstructive colorectal cancer.”  Brachytherapy 8(3) 313-317.

D.L. Glennie, T.J. Farrell,  J.E. Hayward and M.S. Patterson.  2010.  “Integrating Spheres for Improved Skin Photodynamic Therapy.” Journal of Biomedical Optics in press

B. Liu, T.J. Farrell and M.S. Patterson. 2010.  “A dynamic model for ALA-PDT of skin: simulation of temporal and spatial distributions of ground-state oxygen, photosensitizer and singlet oxygen. Phys Med Biol. 55 5913-32.

Graduate Students

Graduate Students