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Figure 8.27 The medical image reconstruction part of the computational domain—the breast and
the tumoral formation.
Cylindrical PML (tissue)
Water pool
Spherical PML (water)
US transducer
Cylindrical PML (water)
Figure 8.28 The medical image reconstruction part of the computational domain—the breast and
the tumoral formation.
1 2
The acoustic heating rate, Q US 5 2αI 5 2α Re pv , where I [W/m ] is the
2
acoustic intensity, is the heat source term in the bioheat transfer problem
@T
2
ρC 5 kr T 2 ρ C b ω b T 2 T b Þ 1 Q met 1 Q US : ð8:24Þ
ð
b
@t
