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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2008 Apr;11(2):113–121. doi: 10.1080/10255840701336653

Table 1.

Representative thermophysical properties of biological tissues used in the current study (T in degree K) [17-19]

Thermophysical Property Value
Thermal conductivity, k, W/m-K 0.5
15.98−0.0567×T
1005×T−1.15 		273 <T
251 < T < 273
T < 251
Volumetric specific heat, C, MJ/m3-K 3.6
880 − 3.21×T
2.017×T − 505.3
0.00415×T		 273 < T
265 < T < 273
251 < T < 265
T < 251
Latent heat, L, MJ/m3 300
Blood perfusion heating effect, wbCb, kW/m3-K 40