The proposed approach allows estimating, in the design phase, the overall instrumental uncertainty for different configurations, the instrument sensitivity to the accuracy in the measurements of its inputs and the effects on systematic and random measurement errors deriving from the choice of all instrumental variables.
Although atmospheric scattering and surface emission of thermal radiation generally reduce instrument sensitivity to trace gases near the surface, a strong boundary layer signal in NO2 arises from its large boundary layer concentrations relative to the free troposphere.
The dynamic range of the method is from 0.02 ng/mL, which is limited by the instrument sensitivity, to 0.5 ng/mL, which is approaching the capacity of the probes.
Nevertheless, the characteristics of ICG are suboptimal for fluorescence-DOT of human breast: the low quantum yield often leads to increasingly long measuring time and auto-fluorescence that is clinically difficult to suppress - a challenge to instrument sensitivity and to early tumor diagnosis.
However, it can be questioned whether an instrument's sensitivity to differences between health status changes over time, which refers to responsiveness, is different from an instrument's sensitivity to differences in health among subjects at one point in time, which refers to the psychometric concept of parallel forms reliability from the framework of classical test theory [ 2].
Furthermore, the SOI technology allows for thinner (7 μm) silicon layers that significantly reduce the instrument's sensitivity to gamma ray backgrounds.
The instrument's sensitivity to change requires further investigation.
The instrument's sensitivity to therapeutic changes has been shown for the long version [ 55].
σ θ was measured within cones to assess the instrument's sensitivity to changes in OS length, σL.
First, we apply statistical analysis of referenced phase across the cone aperture to determine the instrument's sensitivity to changes in OS length.
