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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 20.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyperthermia. 2010;26(5):499–513. doi: 10.3109/02656731003623590

Table III.

Model parameters.

Symbol Description Value Source
BW Body weight 70 kg assumed
D Total dose of encapsulated DOX injected 49 mg assumed
Hct Haematocrit 0.45 [34]
Hcttumour Haematocrit for tumour microvasculature 0.19 [35]
kp Transfer constant from systemic plasma to tissue 1.6e-3 s−1 calculated with parameters from [36]
ke Transfer constant for clearance 1.1e-3 s−1 calculated with parameters from [36]
kt Transfer constant from tissue to systemic plasma 4.6809e-5 s−1 calculated with parameters from [36]
ke_LTSL Rate constant of LTSL clearance 2.228e-4 s−1 fit to data from [37]
k1ci Parameter for intracellular uptake 2.2572 [17]
k2ci Parameter for intracellular uptake 0.0452 kg/m3 [17]
k3ci Parameter for intracellular uptake 2.8056e-4 s−1 [17]
Kici Parameter for intracellular uptake 5.2875e-4 kg/m3 [17]
PS Permeability surface area product for DOX 7e-3 s−1 [14]
UDOX Factor for binding of DOX to proteins 0.3 [38, 39]
VBB
Total blood volume in body 5.53 L calculated with: blood = 7.9% of body weight [2]
VpB
Volume of systemic plasma 3.04 L VBB (1-Hct)
Vtissue Volume for body tissue (organs, etc.) 64.47 L calculated with: blood = 7.9% of body weight [2]
υυT
Volume fraction of tumour vascular space 0.092 [40]
υpT
Volume fraction of tumour plasma space 0.07452 υυT (1-Hcttumour)
υeT
Volume fraction of tumour EES 0.454 [41]
υiT
Volume fraction of tumour intracellular space 0.454 ( 1­υυT­υeT)
RR Release rate of DOX from LTSL Variable [s−1] calculated
RR37 Release rate of DOX from LTSL at 37°C Variable [s−1] calculated
RR Release fraction of DOX from LTSL Variable bi-exponential fit
FpυT
Plasma flow in tumour plasma space; note: Fpv=plasma flow/plasma volume Variable [s−1] calculated
T Temperature Variable [°C] imported from a prior modeling study [23]
tres Residence time Variable [s]
1/FpυT
Diff Diffusion coefficient for ablated tissue 1.1e-7 cm2/s [16]
Diffusion coefficient for non-ablated tissue 6.7e-7 cm2/s