Local heating of human skin by millimeter waves: Effect of blood flow

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 489-501

  Alekseev, S I ^a,b   Radzievsky, A A ^a   Szabo, I ^a   Ziskin, M C ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

BHTE; Effective thermal conductivity; HBHE; Hybrid bioheat equation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MILLIMETER WAVES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WAVEGUIDES;

BIO-HEAT EQUATIONS; BIOHEAT TRANSFER EQUATIONS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PERFUSION; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; HYBRID BIOHEAT EQUATION; LOCAL HEATING; MM WAVES;

TISSUE;

NICOBOXIL;

ARTICLE; CREAM; FINGER; FOREARM; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHERMIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 24344473788     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20118     Document Type: Article

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