Cooling and monitoring skin temperature
Cooling and monitoring skin temperature
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I originally sent this to the heat transfer forum, but maybe this forum is more appropriate.
Does anyone have any experience/pointers/insights on how to cool and maintain skin below it's normal temperature?
A small surface area of skin (~3x3mm) must be maintained at 28C indefinitely. I'd like to create a software model. This would be easy if skin behaved like any solid material of known conductivity, but I've never worked with live human tissue and thanks to pores, skin types, blood circulation, and probably other constantly changing thermal properties, I don't know how to characterize it. Any suggestions?
Accurately monitoring skin temperature in the cooled area is another issue. Any suggestions are most welcome.
Does anyone have any experience/pointers/insights on how to cool and maintain skin below it's normal temperature?
A small surface area of skin (~3x3mm) must be maintained at 28C indefinitely. I'd like to create a software model. This would be easy if skin behaved like any solid material of known conductivity, but I've never worked with live human tissue and thanks to pores, skin types, blood circulation, and probably other constantly changing thermal properties, I don't know how to characterize it. Any suggestions?
Accurately monitoring skin temperature in the cooled area is another issue. Any suggestions are most welcome.
Kevin O'Connor
www.ECooling.biz





RE: Cooling and monitoring skin temperature
Aside from complete immersion in 28°C water bath, the most obvious way is a direct-contact TEC with closed loop control with either a thermocouple on the TEC or injected into the skin.
It's been over 7 years since I looked, but there are syringe-injectable thermocouples with pretty fast (<20ms) response times available.
TTFN
RE: Cooling and monitoring skin temperature
Kevin O'Connor
www.ECooling.biz
RE: Cooling and monitoring skin temperature
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