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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Res. 2010 Oct 1;3(11):779–793. doi: 10.1007/s12274-010-0045-1

Figure 5.

Figure 5

In vivo photothermal treatment of tumors with gold nanorods: (a) a thermal image of a mouse bearing two tumors injected with 200 μL of 3.5 mg/mL (35 mg/kg) AuNR solution, taken of the left shoulder tumor 4.5 min into NIR laser irradiation at a power of 2 W/cm2; (b) a thermal image of the same mouse as in (a) injected with 200 μL of 3.5 mg/mL (35 mg/kg) AuNR solution, taken of the right shoulder tumor 4.5 min into NIR laser irradiation at a power of 0.6 W/cm2; (c) an optical image of the same BALB/c mouse as in (a) and (b) taken immediately before NIR laser irradiation; (d) plots of relative tumor volume vs. time for AuNR injected mice for tumors heated at 0.6 W/cm2 for 5 min (five mice/group) and tumors heated at 2 W/cm2 for 5 min (five mice/group)