Table 4.

Organ weight derived from the MRI measure and the autopsy data for healthy Caucasian subjects

	Women		Men
	MRI	Autopsy	MRI	Autopsy
Age, yr	45±17	48±16	52±21	45±17
Weight, kg	62±9	61±12	78±11	76±13
Height, cm	163±6	164±7	177±8	177±7
BMI, kg/m2	23.4±4	22.3±4	24.8±3	24.0±4
Brain, g	1,114±111	1,332±112	1,293±147	1,498±128
Heart, g	184±36	320±67	291±57	423±87
Spleen, g	163±73	120 (median)	243±87	170 (median)
Liver, g	1,390±172	1,591±436	1,658±281	1,851±442

Values are means ± SD. Autopsy data are cited from Garby et al. (9). Heart mass in the MRI study was estimated from LVM by multiplying a factor of 1.50 [from Jones (13)].