Giuseppe Carluccio1,
Christopher Michael Collins1
1Radiology,
New York University, New York, United States
Pennes bioheat equation is one of most used models to predict temperature increase in body tissues. We present a simple and conservative method to include the variation of blood temperature increase in the Pennes bioheat equation due to the whole-body SAR absorption. Plots are provided showing the core blood temperature over time, and the spatial temperature increase distribution for a cross-section of the body obtained with both the Pennes bioheat equation having constant value of blood temperature, and the method with the time dependent blood temperature here presented.
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