Gold Nanoparticle Mediated Phototherapy for Cancer

Figure 11

Static sphere-shell model shows that photosensitizer-coated GNP generates a local enhanced EM field upon irradiation. (a) The calculated local field enhancing factor changes with excitation wavelength and photosensitizer shell thickness (b) and GNP size (c) [28].

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