numerical solutions for pennes’ bioheat equations

Description

The world is changing drastically and diseases are evolving over time. One kind of such is cancer. Modern clinical treatments have come up to treat cancer and thus understanding of the temperature behaviour in human tissues is of essence. Thermal ablation is one kind of treatment to cancerous tissues by exposing them to very high temperature(hyperthermia) while protecting the temperatures of the surrounding tissue [1]. The main goal ofthermal ablation is to raise the temperature ofthe cancerous tissue to a point where cancer cells are destroyed while maintaining normal temperature for tissues that surround. There are other modern clinical treatments that need the understanding ofheat transfer in living tissues and these are cryosurgery, cryopreservation and thermal diagnostics [2]. Thus, study of bio heat transfer in living tissues has been an important topic to scientists over the last many years.