Figure 4.

Shows heat rise (°C) in the centre of tumour over 10 min (600 s) comparing simulations to experimental data taken from Dickerson et al. [22]. In their experiment, treatments were performed by administration of 15 µL of pegylated gold nanorods (OD₈₀₀ = 40, 2 min accumulation) followed by 10 min of 0.9–1.1 W NIR laser exposure. Sham/NIR treatments were performed by administration of 15 µL 10 mM PBS and NIR laser exposure of comparable time and power density.