Table 3.
Summary of a Selection of Previously Reported Transverse Relaxation Times and Bound Pool Fractions in Muscle Samples
| Ex vivo sample | B0 |
 (μs) |
f | F | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bovine muscle | 1.5 T | 7.6 ± 0.3 | (19) | ||
| Mouse skeletal muscle | 1.5 T | 8.2 ± 0.6 | 0.069 ± 0.016 | (37) | |
| Uncooked beef | 1.5 T | 6.6 ± 0.5 | 0.122 ± 0.009 | (20) | |
| Mouse skeletal muscle | 3 T | 8.7 ± 0.1 | 0.074 ± 0.013 | (21) | |
| Frog muscle | 4.7 T | 0.08 ± 0.01 | (36) | ||
| In vivo human muscle | 3 T | 5.9 ± 0.2 | 0.08 ± 0.01 | This work |
Ex vivo experiments were performed with CW irradiation in contrast to this work. The parameter 
may be related to the parameter f used in this work via the expression f = F/(1 + F).