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Visualization of the surface distributions of reactive oxygen species on model human tissues treated by a He+O2 plasma jet

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The spatial–temporal distribution of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in human tissue is critical for the medical applications of cold plasma jet as it reflects the therapeutic range of cold plasma jet, but the mechanism for its formation is still unclear. To this end, KI-starch reagent was used to visualize the surface distributions of ROS on the model human tissues treated by a He + O2 plasma jet in this paper. It was found that the surface distribution of ROS was divided into two parts by a small donut-shaped of un-colored area. This un-colored area was resulted from the color fading of the model tissue, which might be induced by the AC electric field of the plasma jet and the plasma-generated reductive species. The colored area and the un-colored area had different trends with the working gas flow rate and the model tissue conductivity. The un-colored area increased with the expansion of the plasma plume and shrank with the increasing model tissue conductivity.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52007035).

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    Tongtong He, Yanpeng He, Yunzheng Wang, Yize Zheng & Yuesheng Zheng

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He, T., He, Y., Wang, Y. et al. Visualization of the surface distributions of reactive oxygen species on model human tissues treated by a He+O2 plasma jet. Eur. Phys. J. D 76, 155 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-022-00487-3

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