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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 4. Time responses (demonstrating the decrease of the probe laser intensity owing to the integral scattering effect) obtained from various objects exposed to a single pump pulse (532 nm, 0.5 ns).

Figure 4

(A) Photothermal bubbles (PTBs) around 30-nm gold nanoparticles (NPs) (0.9 J/cm2), (B) PTBs around the cluster of 30-nm gold NPs (0.9 J/cm2), (C) thermal signal in the sample of 30-nm gold NPs at a fluence below the PTB threshold (0.5 J/cm2), (D) superimposed signal os the PTB and thermal field in the sample with hemoglobin as homogenous absorber; the inserts in (C & D) show relaxation of bulk thermal signals at full time scales.

Reproduced with permission from [55].