Thermosensitive nanosystems associated with hyperthermia for cancer treatment

I Pereira Gomes, J Aparecida Duarte, AL Chaves Maia… - Pharmaceuticals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Conventional chemotherapy regimens have limitations due to serious adverse effects.
Targeted drug delivery systems to reduce systemic toxicity are a powerful drug development …

An analytical model for wearable thermoelectric generators harvesting body heat: An opportunistic approach

A Zhang, D Pang, J Lou, J Wang, WM Huang - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wearable thermoelectric generators (WTEGs) have the potential to transform body heat into
electrical energy, thereby establishing a sustainable power reservoir for wearable …

Thermal field and tissue damage analysis of moving laser in cancer thermal therapy

A Kabiri, MR Talaee - Lasers in Medical Science, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, a closed-form analytical solution of hyperbolic Pennes bioheat equation is
obtained for spatial evolution of temperature distributions during moving laser …

Temperature distribution in multi-layer skin tissue in presence of a tumor

D Sarkar, A Haji-Sheikh, A Jain - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2015 - Elsevier
Analytical investigation of bioheat transfer is of significant importance for numerous medical
applications, for example in thermally-driven treatments for cancer. While bioheat transfer …

Summary of numerical analyses for therapeutic uses of laser-activated gold nanoparticles

J Mesicek, K Kuca - International Journal of Hyperthermia, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The optimal light dose, heat generation, consequent heat spread and an accurate thermal
damage model, are key components of effective laser therapies. Recent advances in …

Non-invasive measurement of effective thermal conductivity of human skin with a guard-heated thermistor probe

T Okabe, T Fujimura, J Okajima, S Aiba… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper describes a non-invasive method for measurement of the effective thermal
conductivity of human skin with a guard-heated thermistor probe. The guard-heated …

Transient spray cooling: Similarity of dynamic heat flux for different cryogens, nozzles and substrates

JM Tian, B Chen, D Li, ZF Zhou - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
Spray cooling is widely used in industries. Understanding of the complex surface heat
transfer characteristics is essential to enhance cooling efficiency. In the present study …

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of porous liver: Numerical analysis of heat transfer and hemodynamics

M Mohammadpour, B Firoozabadi - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study, the influence of the liver vascular bed on heat transfer in a tumor
located close to the hepatic artery and exposed to high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) …

Temperature distribution analysis using a combination of near-infrared laser, gold nanorods, and surface cooling equipment: temperature distribution study

A Obonai, T Kogawa, Y Kanda, OS Oluwafemi… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metastatic diseases are the primary causes of death among cancer patients. Photothermal
therapy, which combines near-infrared lasers, gold nanorods (GNRs), and skin surface …

Particle filter and approximation error model for state estimation in hyperthermia

B Lamien, HR Barreto Orlande… - Journal of Heat …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This work deals with numerical simulation of a hyperthermia treatment of skin cancer as a
state estimation problem, where uncertainties in the evolution and measurement models, as …