Fingertip Model for Blood Flow and Temperature - Computational Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System - page 306

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FIgure 23.5 Temperature recovery profiles with (a) periodic and (b) constant nervous control signals.
(From Zhang HD et al., Computers in Biology and Medicine , 40, 2010. With permission.)

in 10°C cold water. When the nervous control signal was periodic and the efferent frequency was
expressed as Equation 23.8, the temperature recovery profile was as shown in Figure 23.5a.

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