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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 7.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2014 Mar 12;59(7):1679–1700. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/7/1679

Table 4.

Thermal and acoustical parameters of water and soft tissue as used in the simulations. The parameters shown are based on the values presented in [17, 13, 11, 12].

Material ρ (kg/m3) c (m/s) α (Np/m)
Water 1000 1500 0
Soft tissue 1030 1562 4.3

Material κ (W/°Cm) C (J/kg°C) W (1/s)

Soft tissue 0.528 3640 8.33 · 10−3

Material ρb (kg/m3) Cb (J/kg°C) Tb (°C)

Blood 1030 3620 37