Table 4.

Summary of analyses conducted in Study I & II.

Analyzed parameters	Purpose
Maximum temperatures	Instant necrosis happens at 60 °C; therefore, any volume of tissue that reaches this threshold at least once is considered ablated.
Average temperatures	Understand the overall distribution of heat within the tissue over time
Final temperatures	Expected temperatures during steady state
Constant temperature (isothermal) contours	Understand how the ablation zone expands
Necrosis volume	Defines the minimum volume of ablated tissue
Isothermal surface of 60 °C	Very conservative estimate of the ablation zone shape and volume; useful for models without a necrosis calculation (heat transfer in solids)a

^aAssumes necrosis volume increases at the same rate as tissue temperature ≥60 °C.