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Destruction of tissue, heating and heat transfer
Are there any references available for the energy required to destroy tissue (or different types of tissue)? I have been told that it is related to the energy required to break the bonds of the proteins in the cells, but I have not found any specific values.
I have found values for specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, heat of vaporisation, and some other things, but in order to do some simple (crude approximated) calculations, I'd also need the energy required to destroy tissue. At first I thought that it was enough to find the energy required to raise tissue to 41 ºC, as I already have specific heat capacity.
But is 41 ºC really a universal point of no return for tissue? Or is it more related to brain functions?
I'm basically trying to approximate injury from heat transfer/heating, nothing fancy, but still to give a little insight.
I think I have all the correct equations for the various forms of heat transfer and heating, but without any data on how tissue behaves it's pretty much useless.
EDIT:
After searching for various terms and looking through sites, I've found bond dissociation energy. As the body is mostly water, would it be too far off from realistic values if you simply needed to break the O-H bonds in order to destroy soft tissue? If so, would it then be the sum of all the bonds in water, i.e. two O-H bonds (460 kJ/mol)?
Are there any references available for the energy required to destroy tissue (or different types of tissue)? I have been told that it is related to the energy required to break the bonds of the proteins in the cells, but I have not found any specific values.
I have found values for specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, heat of vaporisation, and some other things, but in order to do some simple (crude approximated) calculations, I'd also need the energy required to destroy tissue. At first I thought that it was enough to find the energy required to raise tissue to 41 ºC, as I already have specific heat capacity.
But is 41 ºC really a universal point of no return for tissue? Or is it more related to brain functions?
I'm basically trying to approximate injury from heat transfer/heating, nothing fancy, but still to give a little insight.
I think I have all the correct equations for the various forms of heat transfer and heating, but without any data on how tissue behaves it's pretty much useless.
EDIT:
After searching for various terms and looking through sites, I've found bond dissociation energy. As the body is mostly water, would it be too far off from realistic values if you simply needed to break the O-H bonds in order to destroy soft tissue? If so, would it then be the sum of all the bonds in water, i.e. two O-H bonds (460 kJ/mol)?
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