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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: Nanotechnology. 2010 Jan 25;21(8):85102. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/8/085102

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Targeting the cell with gold NPs (a) and optical generation and detection of the intracellular PNBs: the 1st one non-invasively amplifies optical scattering (b), while increasing the fluence of the pump laser pulse induces the 2nd PNB that mechanically damages the cell (c); I—stages of the PNB theranostic action, II—optical pulsed scattering images of one cell with the membrane border shown with a white line, III—optical time response of the PNB shows its lifetime, IV—bright field and V—fluorescent (ethidium bromide-specific) images of the cell show it before (a) and after the generation of the 1st (b) and the 2nd (c) PNBs.