NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR AND THERMAL DAMAGE OF THERMAL LAGGING IN CONCENTRIC LIVING TISSUES SUBJECTED TO GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION SOURCE

Abstract

The effects of thermal lagging with high-order became essential to describe non-equilibrium heating in tissues. This paper studies the temperature rise behavior in living tissues theoretically during the treatment by magnetic tumor hyperthermia based on the non-linear form of the dual-phase-lag model. Experimentally, it was found that the concentration of magnetic particles is in Gaussian distribution through the radial direction when magnetic fluid is injected into the living tissue space. Hence, the governing partial differential equation in concentric spherical space is solved in the Laplace transform domain. Some comparisons between the non-linear and linear effects of phase-lag time’s parameters on bio-heat transfer have been studied and discussed. The thermal damage quantity for the tumor has been calculated with different values of the phase-lag times. The results show that the nonlinear and linear effects of phase-lag times on bio-heat transfer have significant effects on the tumor, the tissue, and the thermal damage quantity.