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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: Lasers Surg Med. 2011 Feb 2;43(3):10.1002/lsm.21043. doi: 10.1002/lsm.21043

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Photothermal responses of RBC to the laser pulses (532 nm, 10 nanoseconds) at three different fluence levels as obtained with the probe laser beam: Low fluence (0.8 J/cm2): (a) response to the first pulse shows heating (sharp front) and cooling after the pulse termination (not shown in full), (b) response to the second identical pulse shows an almost identical response; high fluence (2.5 J/cm2): (c) response to the first pulse shows an ablative vapor bubble, (d) response to the second identical pulse shows an almost identical response (the bubble); intermediate fluence (2.0 J/cm2). Cooling tails of the responses shown in (a) and (b) are not completely shown because of the cooling time of about 10 microseconds.