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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015;2015:3403–3406. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319123

TABLE I.

Tissue conductivity values for each tissue for frequency less than 1 kHz.

Tissue types Conductivity values (S/m) Reference
Air 0 -
Blood 6.7×10−1 Geddes and Baker (1967)
Cancellous Bone 21.5×10−3 Akhtari et al. (2002)
Cortical bone 5.52×10−3 Akthari et al. (2002)
Cerebrospinal fluid 1.8 Baumann et al. (1997)
Fat 2.5×10−2 Gabriel et al. (1996)
Gray matter 1.0×10−1 Gabriel et al. (1996)
Muscle 1.6×10−1 Geddes and Baker (1967)
Sclera, lens 5.0×10−1 Gabriel et al. (1996)
Skin 4.3×10−1 Holdefer et al. (2006)
White matter 3.835×10−1 Geddes and Baker (1967)