A bioheat transfer approach is proposed to study thermal damage in biological tissues caused by laser radiation. The laser light propagation in the tissue is first solved by using a robust seven-flux model in cylindrical coordinate system. The resulting spatial distribution of the absorbed laser energy is incorporated into the bioheat transfer equation for solving temperature response. Thermal ...

Abstract Heat transfer in skin tissue is an area of interest for medical sciences. In this paper we intend to study fractional bioheat equation for heat transfer in skin tissue with constant and sinusoidal heat flux condition on skin surface. Numerical solutions are obtained by implicit finite difference method. We study the effect of anomalous diffusion in skin tissue and compare it with norma...

Based on the quadratic spline function, a quadratic spline collocation method is presented for the time fractional bioheat equation governing the process of heat transfer in tissues during the thermal therapy. The corresponding linear system is given. The stability and convergence are analyzed. Some numerical examples are given to demonstrate the efficiency of this method. c ©2016 All rights re...

Present paper deals with the solution of time and space fractional Pennes bioheat equation. We consider time fractional derivative and space fractional derivative in the form of Caputo fractional derivative of order [Formula: see text] and Riesz-Feller fractional derivative of order [Formula: see text] respectively. We obtain solution in terms of Fox's H-function with some special cases, by usi...

The effect of metabolic heat generation on the freezing of biological tissue has been studied. Quasi-steady approximation is used to solve the Pennes bioheat equation in tissues. Temperature profile and motion of freezing interfaces are obtained for different values of metabolic heat generation. It is observed that metabolism has a significant effect on freezing of biological tissues during cry...