To predict temperature distribution in a finite biological tissue simultaneously subjected to oscillatory surface and spatial heating, we apply a nonlinear one-dimensional temperature-dependent blood perfusion bioheat Pennes transfer equation. Going from works of Jens Lang et al. in IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering (1999) pp. 1129–138 and Tzu-Ching et al. in Medical Engineering & Physics 2...

The finite difference time domain method is used to calculate the specific absorption rate (SAR) due to a butterfly surface coil in a realistic tissue model of the leg. The resulting temperature distribution and temperature changes are found using a finite difference solution to the bioheat transfer equation. Reasonable agreement is found between predicted temperature changes and those measured...

In this paper, a two level finite difference scheme of Crank-Nicholson type is constructed and used to numerically investigate nonlinear temperature distribution in biological tissues described by bioheat transfer equation of Pennes’ type. For the equation under consideration, the thermal conductivity is either depth-dependent or temperature-dependent, while blood perfusion is temperature-depen...

As a part of an ongoing effort to develop computerized planning tools for cryosurgery, an experimental study has been conducted to verify a recently developed numerical technique for bioheat transfer simulations. Experiments were performed on gelatin solution as a phantom material, using proprietary liquid-nitrogen cryoprobes. Urethral warming was simulated with the application of a cryoheater,...

In this work the metabolic heat generated by breast tumors was estimated indirectly and noninvasively from digital infrared images and numerically simulating a simplified breast model and a cancerous tumor, this parameter can be of clinical importance since it has been related to the doubling volume’s time and malignancy for that particular tumor. The results indicate that digital infrared imag...