SESSION 1: THERAPEUTIC PROCESSES - I

• Keynote: The Future of Biothermal Engineering
• Blood Perfusion Measurements in the Canine Prostate During Transurethal Hyperthermia
• Mathematical Simulation of Heat Transfer Process in Skin Cover at Burn Injury

SESSION 2: THERAPEUTIC PROCESSES - II

• Keynote: Optimization of Temperature Distributions for Regional Hyperthermia Based on a Nonlinear Heat Transfer Model
• 3-D Temperature Distribution in Ultrasound Hyperthermia with Interstitial Waveguide Applicator

SESSION 3: THERAPEUTIC PROCESSES - III

• Computer Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer in Tissue During High-Intensity Long-Range Laser Irradiation
• Laser Ultrasonic Transport of Drugs in Living Tissues

SESSION 4: BLOOD PERFUSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS

• Keynote: On the Thermal Efficiency of Cold-Stressed Fingers
• Measurement of Thermal Diffusivity of Bovine Aorta Subject to Finite Deformation
• The Effect of Turbulent Fluctuation of Air on Thermal Sensation

SESSION 5: MASS TRANSFER - I

• Keynote: Fluid Filtration Across the Arterial Wall Under Flow Conditions: Is Wall Shear Rate Another Factor Affecting Filtration Rate?
• Mathematical Model for Controlled Diffusional Release of Dispersed Solute Drugs from Monolithic Implants

SESSION 6: MASS TRANSFER - II

• Structure and Growth of Tumors: The Effect of Cartesian, Cylindirical, and Spherical Geometries
• Keynote: Concentration Polarization of Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL) in the Arterial System
• The Cell Type Sandwich Construction for Human Blood Plasma Polarisation Microscopy - The Medicine Engineering and the Results of the Investigations

SESSION 7: CRYOBIOLOGY - I

• Keynote: Response of a Liver Tissue Slab to a Hyperosmotic Sucrose Boundary Condition: Microscale Cellular and Vascular Level Effects
• Analysis of Mass Transport during Warming of Cryopreserved Cells
• Method of Designing Pre-Freezing Protocal in Cryopreservation of Biological Materials

SESSION 8: CRYOBIOLOGY - II

• A Model of Low-Temperature Water Transport for Hepatocyte Spheroids
• Network Thermodysnamic Model of Coupled Transport in a Multicellular Tissue - The Islet of Langerhans

SESSION 9: CRYOBIOLOGY - III

• Non- Linear Microscale Alterations in Membrane Transport by Electropermeabilization
• Effects of Glycerol on Intracellular Ice Formation and Dehydration of Onion Epidermis
• Things We Do not Know about Cryopreservation of Biological Organs

SESSION 10: CRYOBIOLOGY - IV

• Three-Dimensional Behaviour of Ice Crystals and Biological Cells during Freezing of Cell Suspensions
• Prevention of Hemolysis in Rapidly Frozen Erythrocytes by Using a Laser Pulse
• A Continuous Hybrid Microwave Process for Producing Rapid and Uniform Rewarming of Cryopreserved Tissues
• Rapid Cooling of Small Samples Quenching into Liquid Nitrogen: The Effects of Subcooling and Quenching Speed

SESSION 11: CRYOBIOLOGY - V

• Transplantation of Trachea with Cryopreserved Allografts in Dogs
• Measurement of Cell Volume Loss in the Liquid Region Preceeding an Advancing Phase Change Interface
• Biophysics of Freezing in Liver of the Freeze-Tolerant Wood Frog
• Sensitivity of Kidney Perfusion Protocol Design to Physical and Physiological Parameters

POSTER SESSION

1. Development of Novel Biological Inhibitors of Fouling and Scale Formation on Heat Transfer Surfaces through Genetic Engineering
2. Phase Response Behavior of a Model for Sino-Atrial Node Cell
3. Phase Change Interface Study in High Speckle Domain
4. Thermal and Acoustic Energy in Electrical Arcs
5. Convective Heat Transfer Around an Infant's Head
6. Circulent Integral Operator for Approximation of Ill-Posed Inverse Heat Conduction Problem (IHCP)
7. Fluid in Hygiene Products: Transport and Influence of Biological Systems
8. Modeling of High Intensity Heat and Moisture Transfer from Fabrics to Skin of Bioobject