Spectrophotometric characterization of useful dyes in laser photodynamic therapy

This paper present the physico-chemical properties of some synthetic porphyrin dyes obtained at ZECASIN SA. We have measured the absorption, excitation and fluorescence spectra of these dyes in different solvents. From them we have concluded that the most reliable due for our studies concerning the photodynamic therapy with UV lasers is Zn II- tetrakis-sulfonatophenyl porphyrin.