Akimasa Hirata and Osamu Fujiwara 2009 Phys. Med. Biol. 54 N189 doi:10.1088/0031-9155/54/10/N02
Akimasa Hirata1 and Osamu Fujiwara
Show affiliationsThe present study discusses a scheme to take into account core temperature variation in a well-known bioheat equation. First, the limitation in conventional modeling of the bioheat equation was investigated for a problem in which the whole-body phantom should be taken into account. Then, schemes for varying body-core temperature in the bioheat equation were discussed for radio-frequency exposures. The computational uncertainty in the core temperature elevation was found to be reasonable when a proper scheme for computing the net rate of heat acquisition by blood from body tissue was introduced.
87.50.S- Radiofrequency/microwave fields effects
Issue 10 (21 May 2009)
Received 25 December 2008, in final form 25 March 2009
Published 6 May 2009
Akimasa Hirata and Osamu Fujiwara 2009 Phys. Med. Biol. 54 N189
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