Table 3.
Sensitivity study: Ratio of epithelial porosity before and after US; Table 1 lists the lower and upper bounds for each input parameter used in the sensitivity study. While varying one of the parameters, the values of other input parameters were kept constant at their mean value.
| Ratio of Post US porosity to Pre-US porosity |
% change in porosity ratio/% change in parameter |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mean properties | lower limit | upper limit | ||
| stroma-porosity | 5.37 | 5.26 | 5.68 | 0.1 |
| Endothelium porosity | 5.37 | 7.00 | 5.40 | 0.4 |
| Sampling volume | 5.37 | 5.38 | 5.16 | 0.4 |
| stroma thickness | 5.37 | 5.07 | 5.38 | 0.2 |
| endothelium thickness | 5.37 | 5.29 | 5.21 | 0.1 |