Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Biol Eng Comput. 2020 Apr 10;58(6):1325–1340. doi: 10.1007/s11517-020-02152-6

Table 2.

Summary of thermal simulation parameters on patient specific models: total elements, degrees of freedom and average simulation time

Model # Total # of
simulations		 Active
sector
angles		 Transducer
intensities
&
durations		 Total
elements		 Total degrees of
freedom		 Average running
time(hour/min/sec)
I 7 90° 8.8 W/cm2, 3 min 2.50 x 106 27.2 million (no cooling)
26.3 million (vaginal cooling)		 8 hours, 0 min, 18 sec
7 hours, 44 min, 56 sec
II 7 90° 8.8 W/cm2, 3 min 2.45 x 106 26.6 million (no cooling)
24.0 million (vaginal cooling)		 8hours, 34 min, 5 sec
7 hours, 18 min, 8 sec
III 6 75°,90° 8.8-10.2 W/cm2, 2-3 min
10.2 W/cm2, 2 min		 2.48 x 106 26.8 million (no cooling)
24.8 million (vaginal cooling)		 7 hours, 23 min, 20 sec
6 hours 35 min, 49 sec