Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Research Article

Microwave Ablation Using Four-Tine Antenna: Effects of Blood Flow Velocity, Vessel Location, and Total Displacement on Porous Hepatic Cancer Tissue

Table 2

Material properties in the FE model [15, 20, 25, 41, 45–48].
MaterialElectromagneticThermalFluidMechanical
20–70°C80–100°C20–70°C80–100°C
—[S/m][W/m·°C][J/kg·°C][kg/m3]—m2—[Pa](1/°C)
PTFE 1.8 [15]1.6 × 10−5 [15]0.24 [15]1050 [15]1200 [15]—————
Blood vessel58.30 [41]2.54 [46]0.543 [25]4180 [25]1000 [41]1 [46]—0.49 [47]2.2 × 105 [47]1 × 10−4 [48]
Tissue (cancer)48.16 [41]2.09 [42]0.570 [41]0.867 [20]3960 [41]3960 [41]1040 [41]0.7 [41]2.72 × 10−10 [41]0.48 [48]10.2 × 106 [48]1 × 10−4 [48]
Tissue (liver)43.03 [20]1.69 [20, 45]0.497 [41]0.867 [20]3600 [20, 45]3858 [41]1030 [46]0.6 [41]7.71 × 10−11 [41]0.48 [48]10.2 × 106 [48]1 × 10−4 [48]
is Poisson’s ratio.