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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2019 Jun 10;64(12):125001. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab2318

Table 2.

Thermal and acoustic properties of tissues used in biothermal modeling studies (Duck 2013, Hasgall et al. 2018, Adams et al. 2016).

Tissue Density
(kg/m3)
Attenuation
(Np/m)
Thermal conductivity
(W/m/°C)
Specific heat
(J/kg/°C)
Perfusion rate
(kg/m3/s)
Soft Tissue 1050 6.9f 0.51 3639 2
Luminal Wall 1045 5f 0.53 3698 6.75
Blood 1050 - 0.52 3617 -

f:frequency (MHz)