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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 12.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Med Robot. 2007 Mar;3:10–19. doi: 10.1002/rcs.124

Table 1.

Representative thermophysical properties of biological tissues used in the current study (20-21)

Thermophysical
property		 Value
Thermal 0.5 273K < T
conductivity, k, 15.98 − 0.0567 × T 251K < T < 273K
W/m-K 1005 × T−1.15 T < 251K
Volumetric 3.6 273K < T
specific heat, C, 880 − 3.21 × T 265K < T < 273K
MJ/m3-K 2.017 × T − 505.3 251K < T < 265K
0.00415 × T T < 251K
Blood perfusion, 40 273K < T
wbCb, kW/m3-K 0 T ≤ 273K

Data from (19,20,21).