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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Mater. 2012 Jan 11;24(5):812–827. doi: 10.1021/cm2028367

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Predicted absorption spectra for gold ellipsoids with varying aspect ratios (ARs). As seen, increasing the AR monotonically shifts the plasmon resonance band into the NIR, which is ideal for deep tissue imaging. Reproduced from Link, et al.51