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. 2018 Aug 29;9:1069. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01069

Table 7.

Sensitivity of the terminal flow rate and its dispersion over the terminal order 1 vessels to perturbations in the model active parameters ρm, ϕm, Cm, Fτmax (±25% of their reference), network output pressure Pout (±20 mmHg of its reference), and the target flow rate qtarget (±50% of its reference 0.4 × 10−3 mm3/s).

Parameter Perturbation qterm × 10−3 mm3/s CV
Reference 0.39 ± 0.09 0.22
ρm High 0.31 ± 0.10 0.32
Low 0.50 ± 0.16 0.33
φm High 0.45 ± 0.10 0.23
Low 0.33 ± 0.09 0.26
Cm High 0.42 ± 0.12 0.28
Low 0.41 ± 0.09 0.22
Fτmax High 0.30 ± 0.13 0.42
Low 0.35 ± 0.12 0.34
Pout High 0.30 ± 0.11 0.37
Low 0.43 ± 0.10 0.24
qtarget High 0.67 ± 0.25 0.37
Low 0.21 ± 0.06 0.30