A non-clinical method to simultaneously estimate thermal conductivity, volumetric specific heat, and perfusion of in-vivo tissue

Many medical therapies, such as thermal tumor detection and hypothermia cancer treatments, utilize heat transfer mechanisms of the body. The focus of this work is the development and experimental validation of a method to simultaneously estimate thermal conductivity, volumetric specific heat, and pe...

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Main Author: Madden, Marie Catherine
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34799
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08272004-093247