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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Imaging. 2006 Jul;5(3):160–174.

Table 1.

Physical Properties of Materials Studied (from Refs. [4650])

Material* Density (kg/m3) Compressibility (m2/N) Viscosity (kg/msec [cP/1000]) Sound Speed (m/sec) Boiling Point (°C) Impedance (kg/m2 sec [× 10−6])
Air 1.2 7.0 × 10−6 0.000018 340 −195 0.0004
Perfluoropentane (C5F12) 1660 0.00065 471 29
Perfluorohexane (C6F14) 1700 2.5 × 10−9 0.00067 520 56 0.88
Water 1000 4.6 × 10−10 0.001 1480 100 1.48
*

Values listed at 20–25°C and 1 atm.

Indicates properties not available.