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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 3.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyperthermia. 2020;37(1):1131–1138. doi: 10.1080/02656736.2020.1823022

Table 1.

Characteristics of materials used in the computer model [14,15,18–20].

Material σe (S/m) εr k (W/m⋅K) ρ (kg/m3) c (J/kg⋅K) σ (S/m)
Liver 1.8(a) 44.3(a) 0.502 1080(b) 3455(b) 0.19(a)
370(c) 2156(c)
Copper 5.87 × 107 1 385 9000 384
Alumina 0 10 30 3970 875
PTFE 1.6 × 10−5 1.8 0.24 1200 1050
Stainless steal 1.74 × 106 1 16.2 8000 500
Plastic 0.026 70 1045 1 × 10−5
Electrode 15 8000 480 7.4 × 106

σe: (effective) conductivity; εr: relative permittivity; k: thermal conductivity; ρ: density; c: specific heat; σ: electrical conductivity.

(a)

Measured at 37 °C,

(b)

for temperatures between 37 °C and 99 °C,

(c)

for temperatures higher than 100 °C.