Table 2.

User-specified thermal and optical model parameter values.

Parameter	Blood	Brain	Pt-Ir (90/10)	PDMS	Sapphire	SiO2	EPS	PEEK
Density [kg/m3]	1060 (Gowrishankar et al., 2004)	1046 (Hasgall et al., 2022)	21530 ("Pt-10% Ir Alloy, Annealed,")	970 ("Poly(dimethylsiloxane)," 2017)	3980 ("Mateck Sapphire (Al2O3),")	2650 (Haynes, 2016)	11.5 (Abdulrazaq Hilal Amir, 2018; "Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) Technical Data,")	1320 (Overview of materials for Polyetheretherketone, Unreinforced)
Heat capacity at constant pressure [J/kg-K]	3770 (Torvi and Dale, 1994)	3636 (Hoppe et al., 2017)	130 ("Annealed 90-Platinum 10-Iridium Alloy, 2018)	1460 ("PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane),")	756 ("Mateck Sapphire (Al2O3),")	703 (Fused Quartz)	1300 (Abdulrazaq Hilal Amir, 2018)	2100 ("Overview of materials for Polyetheretherketone, Unreinforced,")
Thermal conductivity [W/m-K]	–	0.57 (Landazuri et al., 2020)	31 ("Pt-10% Ir Alloy, Annealed,")	0.15 ("PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane),")	27.21 ("Mateck Sapphire (Al2O3),")	1.38 (Fused Quartz)	0.034 (Abdulrazaq Hilal Amir, 2018; Expanded Polystyrene Technical Data and Styrene)	0.25 ("Overview of materials for Polyetheretherketone, Unreinforced,")
Refractive Index	–	1.326b (Hale and Querry, 1973)	0.89532c (Werner et al., 2009)	1.391 (Zhang et al., 2020)	1.749 (Querry, 1985)	1.4496 (Malitson, 1965)	1.011d (Zhang et al., 2020)	1.5 (Zhao et al., 2004)
Absorption coefficient [1/m]	–	35257b (Hale and Querry, 1973)	1.300E8c (Werner et al., 2009)	29.41 (Zhang et al., 2020)	0.02 (Hale and Querry, 1973)	0.7086 (Khashan and Nassif, 2001)	0.2181d (Zhang et al., 2020)	–
Reduced scattering coefficient [1/m]	–	1913 (Yaroslavsky et al., 2002)	0.01a	0.01a	–	0.01a	–	–

^aEstimated to be small enough to be negligible with respect to brain tissue.

^bApproximated from that of water.

^cApproximated from that of pure Pt.

^dWeighted average of 2% Styrene ($n\left(\lambda =1064nm\right)=1.5694+i9.232E-7$) (Zhang et al., 2020) and 98% air.