Marios Nestoros nestoros.m@unic.ac.cy
Description: Electromagnetic hyperthermic medical technologies aim at raising the tissue temperature in a controlled way in order to achieve the destruction of malignant sparing at the same time the surrounding healthy tissue). The effectiveness of the therapy depends among other things on the propagation of heat and the subsequent temperature field that is determined by the thermal properties of the tissue. The aim of this STSM was to determine the thermal properties of animal tissue with the means of a non-contact and potentially non-destructive technique named photothermal radiometry (PTR) and exploring its potential and limitations. The series of samples consisted of thin slices of animal tissue. The experimental results were analyzed with the aid of 1D thermal diffusion model and some initial estimates for the thermal diffusivity for some of the samples was possible. The STSM was carried out at the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Torun in Poland with the aid of Dr. Michał Pawlak.
