ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE PENNE’S BIOHEAT EQUATION FOR THE EVALUATION OF TEMPERATURE FOR DEEP SEATED TISSUES

Abstract

In clinical practice, body temperature is an acclaimed indicator for diagnosis and treatments amongst other follow - ups. This work studied the temperature distribution in deep-seated tissues using Penne’s bio-heat equation (PBE). The analytical solution of the PBE was formulated using the separation of variable technique. The resulting solution gives an expression for tissue temperature in organs that are located inside the body. This revealed that the tissue temperature is subject to changes in tissue thickness, the distance of tissue from the skin surface and other thermal properties of tissues under consideration.