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Computing, Robotics, and Imaging for the Surgical Platform

Table 1 Acoustic and thermal properties for the liver tissue and blood

From: Image-based computational model for focused ultrasound ablation of liver tumor

Tissue

c 0 ( m s )

ρ( kg m 3 )

c( J kgK )

k( W mK )

α( Np m )

Liver

1,540

1,055

3,600

0.512

8.1

Blood

1,540

1,060

3,770

0.53

1.5