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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2015 May 18;28(7):861–872. doi: 10.1002/nbm.3305

Table 1.

Bone properties measured by μCT, 2H IR, gravimetry, SR-CPMG NMR at 9.4T, SR-FID NMR at four field strengths, and SIR-FID NMR at three field strengths. Bone labels are composed of the two-digit age and one-letter gender of the donor.

Bone 27F 30F 37M 49M 53M 53F 65F 69M 74F 75M 82F 83F 83M 93M 97F Mean StDev
μCT Porosity 3.70 3.06 4.77 4.08 5.56 3.78 5.57 5.18 20.38 4.51 17.31 33.53 4.94 5.18 12.92 8.96 8.61

2H IR Bound Fraction (%) 72.1 68.8 61.7 77.9 60.7 72.0 75.6 68.9 50.4 62.1 56.2 48.7 58.8 56.0 49.4 62.62 9.56

Mineral Density (mg/cc) 1197 1208 1163 1207 1159 1192 1161 1172 930.7 1175 1015 751.2 1159 1219 1058 1118 129.6
Organic Density (mg/cc) 525.2 520.7 494.9 514.3 513.1 527.5 513.0 511.2 472.4 510.3 479.0 437.0 520.1 515.2 501.2 503.7 24.3
Water Density (mg/cc) 287.4 292.3 316.2 281.4 294.6 294.8 297.3 302.7 405.0 298.8 394.5 435.6 317.2 318.7 356.2 326.2 48.4

9.4T Short T1–T2 Fraction (%) 86.6 86.2 78.4 83.8 82.9 86.6 81.2 79.3 62.4 80.1 66.4 55.4 77.3 77.6 71.4 77.0 9.3
9.4T Short T2 Fraction (%) 87.4 86.7 78.9 83.9 83.4 87.4 82.3 79.6 64.7 80.6 68.1 59.0 77.8 78.5 73.1 78.1 8.5

1.5T Short T2* Fraction (%) 82.6 82.4 72.2 77.1 75.0 80.7 75.5 72.9 50.5 75.2 74.7 37.7 58.6 68.9 59.5 69.6 12.7
3T Short T2* Fraction (%) 80.0 81.0 72.5 73.2 71.2 94.5 76.9 75.2 37.8 75.6 98.6 17.0 62.9 67.2 37.2 68.1 21.9
7T Short T2* Fraction (%) 87.3 91.7 86.4 87.3 83.6 88.5 84.9 89.1 58.1 94.0 90.8 64.6 99.9 78.2 49.8 82.3 14.0
9.4T Short T2* Fraction (%) 19.4 95.0 59.4 79.4 95.5 18.6 43.0 49.0 38.8 80.7 31.2 60.7 21.8 98.3 35.2 55.1 28.7

1.5T Short T1–T2* Fraction (%) 82.6 81.9 71.9 76.8 75.2 81.0 76.2 73.5 51.1 75.1 64.4 41.5 64.0 69.5 62.3 69.8 11.6
3T Short T1–T2* Fraction (%) 80.3 80.5 73.7 73.2 72.0 57.1 76.9 75.9 49.1 75.2 44.9 37.3 64.5 69.0 55.1 65.6 13.7
7T Short T1–T2* Fraction (%) 84.3 85.4 83.4 85.9 82.9 85.4 83.4 86.0 58.0 87.6 81.6 52.4 33.1 75.6 61.5 75.1 16.2
9.4T Short T1–T2* Fraction (%) 14.3 91.4 62.7 79.1 72.6 16.1 49.5 53.8 39.0 79.6 33.8 32.3 33.2 34.4 45.9 49.2 23.6

1.5T Optimal TI (ms) 70 70 80 80 70 60 90 100 110 100 130 120 90 90 110 91.3 20.3
3T Optimal TI (ms) 50 50 80 60 60 70 80 90 110 80 110 130 100 70 80 81.3 23.3
7T Optimal TI (ms) 140 180 180 160 140 130 160 200 160 220 190 170 240 160 180 174 30