“…However, there are some applications of extremely short time duration or at very low temperature (e.g., cryogenic surgery, laserinduced thermal damage, etc.) for which the parabolic Pennes bioheat equation, which assumes an infinite thermal speed of propagation according to Fourier's law, is not adequate and the mathematical model may be more accurately described by the hyperbolic bioheat equation (Lu, Liu and Zeng, 1998;Liu, Chen and Xu, 1999;Tunga, 2009;Özen, Helhel and Çerezci, 2008;Liu, 2008;Xu, Seffen and Lu, 2008;Zhou, Zhang and Chen, 2009). The hyperbolic bioheat equation is characterised by the finite thermal speed of propagation of the thermal waves due to the application of a modified Fourier's law (Cattaneo, 1958).…”