Modeling of heat transfer in breast by modified Pennes equation

Abstract

A modeling of thermal behavior of human body tissues is very important for different clinical applications, for example, breast cancer diagnosis. This paper is devoted to modeling of heat transfer in breast with oncological pathology. The classical bioheat Pennes equation was led to dimensionless form following Frank-Kamenetskii representation in the combustion and flame propagation theory. Three dimensionless parameters were found for constitutive equation. It is shown that these parameters may be used as markers which distinguish between cancerous and normal tissues.