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This lecture has been written as a course starting with the fundamentals of general heat transfer ending with the theory of heat transfer in vascularised tissues. The bioheat transfer theory is not undisputed, in this lecture I have tried to describe the heat transfer phenomena in tissue, also displaying the points of controversy. The reader is invited to test the theories himself. The bottlenecks in bioheat transfer are (i) the thermal equilibrium length of venous vessels in comparison with their actual physiological length, (ii) the enhancement of the effective thermal conductivity and (iii) the presence of large vessels. Because data of the human vascular system like vessel lengths, vessel diameters and flow velocities, are almost completely absent, the most important contribution we need at this moment is the determination of physiological data of the human vessel network and in-vivo tests of the theories and models presently used.
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Lagendijk, J.J.W. (1987). Heat Transfer in Tissues. In: Field, S.B., Franconi, C. (eds) Physics and Technology of Hyperthermia. NATO ASI Series, vol 127. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3597-6_24
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