Effect of Forced Convection on the Skin Thermal Expression of Breast Cancer

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 204-211

  Hu, Lu ^a   Gupta, Ashish ^a   Gore, Jay P ^a   Xu, Lisa X ^a,b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCED CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SKIN; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TUMORS; WIND TUNNELS;

AIRFLOW; SKIN THERMAL EXPRESSIONS;

BIOMECHANICS;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COLD STRESS; DEVICE; ENERGY BALANCE; FLOW KINETICS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL NOISE; THERMODYNAMICS; WIND TUNNEL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2442626591     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1688779     Document Type: Article

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