Models for thermal damage in tissues: Processes and Applications

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Pearce, John A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhenius models; Cumulative equivalent minutes; Thermal damage; Thermal iso effect dose

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; TUMORS;

ARRHENIUS KINETICS; ARRHENIUS MODELS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CUMULATIVE EQUIVALENT MINUTES; THERMAL ALTERATION; THERMAL DAMAGE; THERMAL DAMAGE PROCESS; THERMAL ISO-EFFECT DOSE;

TISSUE;

APOPTOSIS; BIREFRINGENCE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BURN; CANCER THERAPY; COLLAGEN DISEASE; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RETINA INJURY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE RELATED PHENOMENA; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE INJURY; VAPORIZATION; VITAL STAIN; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77958017917     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v38.i1.20     Document Type: Review

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