Assessment of steady-state temperature in a single-layer human body model: analytical approach

The paper deals with a simplified procedure for the assessment of steady-state temperature in a single-layer parallelepiped human body model exposed to electromagnetic (EM) radiation using analytical approach. The related bioheat transfer equation variant is solved analytically using the classical theory of ordinary differential equations. The results are given for the case of constant power density and for power density exponentially decreasing with the tissue depth. The proposed approach leads to the overestimation of steady-state temperature in the body exposed to EM radiation, compared to other analytical methods.