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Simulation of heating of biological tissues in the process of ultrahigh-frequency therapy

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A physicomathematical model of the temperature distribution over the surface and the bulk of a biological object (human palm) exposed to an ultrahigh-frequency electric field (40.68 MHz) for therapeutic purposes is presented. Various approaches to studying the propagation of laser radiation and radio-frequency electromagnetic waves in biological tissues are considered. The temperature distributions in various biotissues, obtained by numerical solution of the nonstationary heat problem, are presented.

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    V. L. Dragun, S. M. Danilova-Tret’yak & S. A. Gubarev

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 1, pp. 106–111, January–February, 2005.

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Dragun, V.L., Danilova-Tret’yak, S.M. & Gubarev, S.A. Simulation of heating of biological tissues in the process of ultrahigh-frequency therapy. J Eng Phys Thermophys 78, 109–114 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-005-0036-3

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