Computer-aided analysis of the heat transfer in skin tissue

摘要

The thermal therapies are based on the heat transfer in biological tissues. The goal of this paper is to present the computer-aided analysis of the heat transfer in skin tissue using the clinical data and experience of the doctors. Some mathematical models are presented starting from Pennes' bioheat transfer equation for different boundary conditions in the transient regimes. An exact solution is presented for a one-layer model. For multilayer models, the numerical results are presented for some particular situations using the finite element method.