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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Feb;37(2):313–331. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23844

Table 1.

Properties of 129Xe and 3He gases, and protons in water.

Nucleus Natural
abundance [%]		 Gyromagnetic
ratio [MHz/T]		 Diffusion coefficient
[cm2/s]		 Ostwald solubility
coefficient2
Pure1 Dilute gas
in air2 		Water Blood Oil
129Xe 26 −11.8 0.06 0.14 0.083 0.14 1.7
3He 10−4 −32.4 1.8 0.86 0.0098 0.0099 0.018
1H (water) -- 42.6 ~2 × 10−5 -- -- -- --
1

Data are at 1 atm. and 20°C. “Pure” refers to the self-diffusion coefficient. 3He data from ref. (96); 129Xe data from ref. (97).

2

Estimated values are at 1 atm. and 37°C (98).

3

Volume of gas at 1 atm. that dissolves in unit volume of fluid. Data are for 37°C and natural abundance gases (16).