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. 2024 Sep 30;13(19):5853. doi: 10.3390/jcm13195853

Table 1.

Simulation parameters used for simulating liver phantoms and the clinical case [14,20,22,23].

Name
Variables Value Unit Description
ρblood 1000 kg/m3 Density, blood
Cpblood 3639 J/(kg·K) Specific heat, blood
ωblood 0.00361 1/s Perfusion rate, blood
Tblood 310.15 K Temperature, blood
Tphantom 290.15 K Temperature, phantom
ϵliver 43.03 1 Relative permittivity, liver
ϵtumor 54.8 1 Relative permittivity, tumor
σliver 1.69 S/m Electric conductivity, liver
σtumor 2 S/m Electric conductivity, tumor
ϵdiel 2.03 1 Relative permittivity, dielectric
ϵcat 2.6 1 Relative permittivity, catheter
f 2.45 GHz Microwave frequency
Pin 35 W Input microwave power phantom
PinP 42 W Input microwave power clinical case
Cpliver 3600 J/(kg·K) Specific heat capacity, liver
Cptumor 3760 J/(kg·K) Specific heat capacity, tumor
ρliver 1069 kg/m3 Density, liver
ρtumor 1040 kg/m3 Density, tumor
kliver 0.55 W/(m·K) Thermal conductivity, liver
ktumor 0.57 W/(m·K) Thermal conductivity, tumor
Qmliver 1000 W/m3 Metabolic heat, liver
Qmtumor 1.3 × 1000 W/m3 Metabolic heat, tumor