In recent years, photothermal therapy (PTT) particularly nanomaterial-based PTT is a
promising therapeutic modality and technique for cancer tumor ablation. In addition to killing …

Optical and photonic technologies play an important role in human progress. The bending of
light to our will has not only enabled our biological self-discovery, but has also allowed us to …

The use of lasers, over the past few decades, has emerged to be highly promising for cancer
therapy modalities, most commonly the photothermal therapy method, which employs light …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are attractive photothermal agents for cancer therapy because
they show efficient local heating upon excitation of surface plasmon oscillations. The strong …

Indocyanine green (ICG) is a near-infrared (NIR) imaging agent and is also an ideal light
absorber for laser-mediated photothermal therapy. This NIR dye could serve as a basis of a …

It is hard to imagine that a narrow, one-way, coherent, moving, amplified beam of light fired
by excited atoms is powerful enough to slice through steel. In 1917, Albert Einstein …

There are several types of surgeries which use lasers in the operating room. Surgeons use
lasers in general surgery or surgical specialties to cut, coagulate, and remove tissue. In …

Photosensitizer-enhanced laser treatment, where dyes are activated in situ by lasers of
appropriate wavelengths, provides highly selective tissue destruction, both spatially and …

Indocyanine green (ICG) is a conventional dye that can be used in clinical near-infrared
(NIR) imaging, and it is also an effective light absorber for laser-mediated photothermal …

In modern medicine, lasers are increasingly utilized for treatment of a variety of pathologies
as interest in less invasive treatment modalities intensifies. The physics behind lasers allows …