Abstract: This paper is concerned with the benefits of using phase-change slurries as enhanced heat-transfer/storage working fluids in solar energy and waste heat utilization systems. Literature is cited ...

Abstract: Recent suggestions for an improved model of heat transfer in living tissues emphasize the existence of a convective mode due to flowing blood in addition to, or even instead of, the perfusive ...

Abstract: A simple technique for measuring thermal conductivity of biomaterials is described. The method is based on depositing a pulse of heat into the material of choice, and fitting the subsequent ...

Abstract: Despite its many advantages, thermography as a medical diagnostic tool has two basic limitations: 1 its images are indirect manifestations of interior thermal structure and hence do not yield ...

Abstract: The present communication presents a single microprobe technique for measuring tissue thermal properties based on the dissipation of a measured amount of energy and the observation of the resulting ...

Abstract: A new Adaptive Thermal Modeling (ATM) method for the measurement of local tissue blood perfusion rate is introduced. The method is based on a two-phase numerical technique. The first phase ...

Abstract: The T hermal P ulse D ecay (TPD) method for the determination of local tissue thermal conductivity and blood perfusion rate is based on a comparison of measured with theoretically calculated ...

Abstract: The influence of a large blood vessel (larger than 500 μm in diameter) on the local tissue temperature decay following a point source heating pulse was determined numerically using a sink/source ...

Abstract: Presented here is a theoretical analysis of the recently developed thermal pulse decay (TPD) method for a simultaneous measurement of local tissue conductivity and blood perfusion rate. The paper ...