Table 1.

Listing of physical parameters. The table shows the physical parameters for native tissue and for coagulated-tissue, as well as for blood [25]. The small letters indicate the references where the material parameters are taken from: a) [20], b) [26], c) [27], d) [28], e) [29].

	Muscle		Blood
	Native	Coagulated
Absorption coefficient, μa (cm-1)	a) 0.23	a) 0.22	b) 0.44
Scattering coefficient, μs' (cm-1)	a) 1.3	a) 13	b) 2.78
Density, ρ (kg cm-3)	c), d) 1.04·10-3		d) 1.06·10-3
Specific heat capacity, c (J kg-1 °C-1)	d) 3.64·103		d) 3.89·103
Heat conductivity, k (W cm-1 °C-1)	c) 5.18·10-3	e) 5.4·10-3