. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2009 Aug;62(2):384–393. doi: 10.1002/mrm.21980

Table 2.

Comparison of estimated age-adjusted iron concentration, measured T₂, measured DSR, and literature T₁ range for several GM and WM structures in the brain.

Structure	Fe (mg/100g)^*	T₂ (ms)	DSR	T₁ (ms)^†
GP	21.3 ± 3.5	53.6 ± 4.5	0.57 ± 0.02	1043 ± 37
RN	19.5 ± 6.9	59.0 ± 4.8	0.56 ± 0.01	N/A
SN	18.5 ± 6.5	52.7 ± 4.7	0.58 ± 0.01	1147 ± 50
Put	13.3 ± 3.4	71.7 ± 3.7	0.51 ± 0.22	1102 - 1337
CN	9.3 ± 2.1	76.6 ± 5.6	0.51 ± 0.03	1258 - 1483
Thal	4.8 ± 1.2	68.9 ± 3.7	0.50 ± 0.01	986 - 1218
Crtx	3.8 ± 0.7	88.6 ± 7.6	0.47 ± 0.3	1280 - 1763
WM	4.2 ± 0.9	75.2 ± 4.9	0.43 ± 0.01	791 - 847

Mean ± SD over all individuals

calculated from (2)

^†

(12,31,32)

N/A: Not available