Figure 7.

Representative temperature values for a single laser spot over an irradiation time of 200 ms measured in the CW mode and MP-5% mode with an average power of 25 mW on the same RPE tissue specimen, respectively, including the fitted average temperature rise for: (A) CW mode displaying the mean optoacoustic temperature (lower blue plot) and the maximal temperature (T_max) course at the central RPE (upper red plot), (B) MP-5% mode showing the maximal temperature at the central RPE at the end of each micropulse (upper red plot: “T_{max, pulse}”) and between two micropulses (lower brown plot: “T_{max, intermediate}”).