Heat Transfer in Medicine and Biology Analysis and Applications. Volume 2

Volume 2 explores many of the important applications of heat transfer in medicine. Among the topics examined are treatment of tumors by hyperthermia, electrosurgery, skill burns, preservation of tissues by freezing and the application of cryosurgery, heat and mass transfer in the respiratory system, heat transfer in teeth, thermography, and temperature measurement. Each chapter begins with a review of the state of the art, followed by a rigorous analytical exposition of the problem being treated. Two appendixes provide the reader with summaries of the thermophysical properties of biological tissues and the principles of numerical analysis in biological heat transfer.