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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine (Lond). 2009 Oct;4(7):813–845. doi: 10.2217/nnm.09.59

Figure 21. Elimination of the human plaque with photothermal bubbles.

Figure 21

(A) Microscopic image of intact plaque, black arrow shows the jet of gold NPs, black circle shows the pump laser beam (532 nm, 10 ns). (B) Microscopic image of the same sample after exposure to laser pulses. (C) Optical density profiles of the intact (dashed line) and laser-treated (solid line) sample, the left part corresponds to the clear glass and the right part corresponds to the plaque tissue. (D) Optical side scattering images of the photothermal bubble obtained simultaneously with their generation and for the same sample. Scale bars are 20 µm.

NP: Nanoparticle.

Reproduced with permission from [60].