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. 2010 Sep 14;11(3):1405–1410. doi: 10.1208/s12249-010-9481-1

Table II.

Fitting of Drug Release Data for Cubic Phase Gels into Various Models

Sample Ritger–Peppas’ empirical equation Higuchi’s square-root equation Zero-order model equation
K R (% h n) n r d K H (% h −0.5) r f K0 (% h −1) r h
F1 2.586 0.592 0.992 4.007 0.994 0.327 0.934
F2 2.349 0.602 0.992 3.831 0.994 0.314 0.938
F3 2.108 0.578 0.991 3.051 0.992 0.247 0.924

r d , r f , r h correlation coefficients for Ritger–Peppas’ empirical equation, Higuchi’s square-root equation, and zero-order model equation, respectively.