Feng Xu
Tianjian Lu

2011

Advances in laser, microwave and similar technologies in medicine have led to recent developments of thermal treatments for disease and injury, involving skin tissue. In spite of the widespread use of thermal therapies in dermatology, they do not draw upon the detailed understanding of the biothermomechanical-neurophysiological behaviour, for none exists to date, even though each behavioural facet is somewhat established and understood.