PubMed · 14515690
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Robert A Linsenmeier. What makes a biomedical engineer?. https://doi.org/10.1109/memb.2003.1237489
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The blood perfusion of biological tissue is a basic parameter of physiology and medical engineering. A novel average temperature model (ATM) is presented in this paper to measure the blood perfusion of tissue based on the thermal pulse-decay method. Differing from the existing point source model (PSM) and spherical source model (SSM), the probe bead average temperature analytical solution is derived and used to estimate the blood perfusion. The blood perfusion prediction errors caused by the approximate assumptions used in each model are studied using the numerical experiment method. Contributions of the tissue parameters, probe thermistor bead parameters, and measurement parameters, such as tissue thermal conductivity, tissue thermal diffusivity, blood perfusion rate, bead thermal conductivity, bead radius, measurement time, and thermal pulse length are discussed. The predicting accuracy of the ATM model is compared with the PSM model and SSM model. The results show that, for all the cases tested, the ATM model is better than the other two.