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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cryobiology. 2012 Aug 15;65(3):270–277. doi: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2012.08.001

Table 1.

Representative thermophysical properties of soft biological tissue used in the current study [19]

Thermal property Value
Thermal conductivity, k, W m−1 K−1 0.5 273K < T
15.98 – 0.56T 251K< T< 273K
1005T−1.15 T < 251K
Volumetric specific heat, C, kJ m−3 K−1 3,600 273K < T
15,440 251K < T < 273K
3.98 T T < 251K
Blood perfusion rate, wb, W m−3 40,000 273K < T
0 T < 273 K
Metabolic heat generation, qmet, W kg−1 0.67 273K< T
0 T < 273K