%0 Journal Article %T Laser Produced Plasma X-Ray Sources for Nanoscale Resolution Contact Microscopy: A Candidate in Cancerous Stem Cells Imaging %A Yas Al-Hadeethi %A A. Al-Mujtabi %A Fahd M. Al-Marzouki %J Advances in Molecular Imaging %P 67-77 %@ 2161-6752 %D 2017 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ami.2017.74004 %X Plasma X-ray sources for biological microscopy have been produced by focusing single shots from Nd:glass laser onto carbon rod targets at irradiances between 1 ¡Á 10¹³ W⋅cm^−2 and 3 ¡Á 10¹³ W⋅cm^−2 to expose test objects. The optimum parameters needed for obtaining high accurate information on the samples under test namely: the minimum energies and irradiances at a range of angles between the incoming laser beam and the normal to the resist, the depth of exposure of the photoresist as a function of incident laser energy (and irradiance) were concluded in this work. %K Laser Plasmas %K Contact Microscopy %K Laser Ablation %K Water Window X-Rays %K PMMA Photoresist %K Mass Ablation Rate %K Exposure Depth %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=80702