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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 25.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2010 May 25;4(5):2892–2900. doi: 10.1021/nn901884d

Table 1.

Heat transport model parameters based on 43, 59

Parameter Description Value
ρ Tissue or fluid density 1000 kg/m3
Q Laser energy 0.008 - 0.038 W/mm3
Cp Tissue or fluid heat capacity 3.4 kJ/(kg K)
OD Optical density 0 to 0.5
α=k/(ρ·Cp)
Tissue or fluid thermal diffusivity with GNRs 3.0 × 10-7 m2/s