Table A1.
Comparison of the recommended density values of the same human tissue type from different sources.
| Tissue Type | Density (g/cm3)
|
Rel. Diff. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodard and White (1986) | ICRU 44 (1989) | ||
| Adipose | 0.95 | 0.916 | 3.6% |
| Mammary gland | 1.02 | 1.05 | 2.9% |
| Liver | 1.06 | 1.053 | 0.7% |
| Muscle | 1.05 | 1.04 | 1.0% |
| Skin | 1.09 | 1.1 | 0.9% |
| Eye lens | 1.07 | 1.1 | 2.8% |
| Lung (deflated) | 1.05 | 1.05 | 0.0% |
| Ovary | 1.05 | 1.048 | 0.2% |
| Red marrow | 1.03 | 1.03 | 0.0% |
| Thyroid | 1.05 | 1.05 | 0.0% |
| Heart (blood filled) | 1.06 | 1.03 | 2.8% |
| Cortical bone | 1.92 | 1.85 | 3.6% |
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| Root-mean-square (RMS) | 2.1% | ||