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Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience A mathematical model for predicting the temperature distribution in laser-induced hyperthermia. Experimental evaluation and applications This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article. 1995 Phys. Med. Biol. 40 2037 (/0031-9155/40/12/003) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 95 The article was downloaded on 15/10/2012 at 06:25 Please note that terms and conditions apply. Phys. Med. Biol. 40 (1995) 2037-2052. Printed in the UK A mathematical model for predicting the temperature distribution in laser-induced hyperthermia. Experimental evaluation and applications C Sturesson and S Andersson-Engels Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology,PO Box 118, S-27 100 Lund. Sweden Received 9 March 1995, in finalform 3 August 1995 Abstract. A time-dependent mathematical model for the heat transfer in laser-induced hyperthermia has been developed. The model calculares the tempmure distribution in surface- irradiated tissues. Good agreement was found between the predictions of the model and in vitro experimental results obtained for bovine liver irradiated with an expanded beam from a Nd:YAG laser. Surface evaporation of warer was included in the model and experimentally verified. The discrepancy between the measured and the calculated rise in temperature at three different depths on the axis of symmetry of the hdiating beam was found to be less than 5% after 15 min of irradiation. When irradiating