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Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2017 Aug 28;45(11):2535–2547. doi: 10.1007/s10439-017-1905-6

TABLE 2.

Material properties used in the in vivo numerical model of the brain

Material	Property	Value	Reference
Brain Tissue	Thermal conductivity ( $k$ )	0.565 $\frac{W}{m K}$	⁹
	Specific heat capacity ( $c_{p}$ )	3680 $\frac{J}{k g C}$	⁹
	Density ( $ρ$ )	1039 $\frac{k g}{m^{3}}$	⁹
	Metabolic heat generation ( $q^{‴}$ )	10437 $\frac{W}{m^{3}}$	³⁰
	Temperature coefficient	0.032 $C^{- 1}$	⁹
	Electrical conductivity ( $σ_{0}$ )	0.285 $\frac{S}{m}$	⁹

Blood	Specific heat capacity ( $c_{p}$ )	3850 $\frac{J}{k g C}$	³⁰
	Density ( $ρ$ )	1060 $\frac{k g}{m^{3}}$	²⁹
	Perfusion rate ( $w_{b})$	7.15E-3	²⁹

Stainless Steel Electrodes	Electrical conductivity ( $σ)$	2.22E6 $\frac{S}{m}$	²
	Thermal conductivity ( $k$ )	14.9 $\frac{W}{m K}$	⁴
	Specific heat capacity ( $c_{p}$ )	477 $\frac{J}{k g C}$	⁴