Photomedicine

Photomedicine is an interdisciplinary branch of medicine that involves the study and application of light with respect to health and disease. Photomedicine may be related to the practice of various fields of medicine including dermatology, surgery, interventional radiology, optical diagnostics, cardiology, and oncology.

A branch of photomedicine is light therapy.

Examples

 * PUVA for the treatment of psoriasis
 * Photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treatment of cancer and macular degeneration
 * Photoluminescence Therapy
 * Free electron laser
 * Laser hair removal
 * Photobiomodulation
 * Optical diagnostics, for example optical coherence tomography of coronary plaques using infrared light
 * Confocal microscopy and fluorescence microscopy of in vivo tissue
 * Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for in vivo quantification of pigments i(normal and cancerous), and hemoglobin
 * Perpendicular-polarized flash photography and fluorescence photography of the skin

Journals and Societies

 * The Photomedicine Society
 * Photomedicine and Laser Surgery journal
 * Photodermatology, Photoimmunology, and Photomedicine

Miscellaneous

 * Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital MGH and Harvard Medical School
 * Article: Role of Photomedicine in Gynecological Ontology