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Abstract
Extreme environmental and physiological conditions present challenges for thermal processes in body tissues including multi-layered human eye. A mathematical model has been formulated in this direction to study the thermal behavior of the human eye in relation with the change in blood perfusion, porosity, evaporation and environmental temperatures. In this study, a comprehensive thermal analysis has been performed on the multi-layered eye using Pennes' bio-heat equation with appropriate boundary and interface conditions. The variational finite element method and MATLAB software were used for the solution purpose and simulation of the results. The thermoregulatory effect due to blood perfusion rate, porosity, ambient temperature and evaporation at various regions of human eye was illustrated mathematically and graphically. The main applications of this model are associated with the medical sciences while performing laser therapy and other thermoregulatory investigation on human eye. Copyright ÂEntities:
Keywords: Bio-heat equation; Human eye; Porosity; Variational finite element method
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27888927 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.06.024
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Therm Biol ISSN: 0306-4565 Impact factor: 2.902