Modeling of skin thermal pain: A preliminary study

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-46

  Xu, Feng ^a   Wen, Ting ^a   Seffen, Keith ^a   Lu, Tianjian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Holistic model; Skin tissue; Thermal pain; Thermomechanical model

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MODELS; MODULATION; SKIN;

AND MODELING; COMMON PROBLEMS; ELECTRICAL ENERGIES; HOLISTIC MODEL; MODELING; NERVE IMPULSES; NEURAL SIGNALS; PAIN SENSATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; SKIN TISSUE; SPINAL CORDS; THERMAL PAIN; THERMOMECHANICAL MODEL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 54049151167     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2008.05.045     Document Type: Article

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