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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Nat Sci. 2018;4(5):e502.

Table 2.

Imaging Measures Derived

Measure type CT Measures Men Women PET Measures Men Women
Volume Measures (Liters) Body 20.8 (18.4, 33.6) 22.6 (16.0, 30.4) N/A N/A
Muscle 7.5 (6.2, 9.6) 4.8 (4.2, 6.2) Muscle MAV 0.2 (0, 0.8) 0.2 (0, 1.6)
IMAT 1.9 (0.9, 2.6) 1.4 (0.96, 3.1) IMAT MAV 0.1 (0, 0.3) 0.1 (0, 0.6)
Muscle Measures (HU or SUB) Max 1026 (491, 3071) 981 (363, 1124) Max 4.7 (3.1, 5.8) 4.5 (3.4, 5.5)
Mean 29.3 (14.4, 49.4) 21.9 (4.8, 37.3) Mean 0.8 (0.7, 1.2) 1.0 (0.9, 1.2)
SD 20.3 (14.9, 24.1) 16.4 (11.2, 23.7) SD 0.2 (0.1, 0.4) 0.3 (0.2, 0.3)
IMAT Measures (HU or SUB) Mean −30.3 (−52.5, −14.3) −31.3 (−53.5, −13.6) Mean 0.8 (0.6, 1.2) 0.9 (0.8, 1.1)
SD 39.3 (18.0, 56.1) 34.8 (16.3, 61.3) SD 0.4 (0.2, 0.5) 0.4 (0.2, 0.5)

Data presented is the median with the range in parentheses, and PET measures are using the SUB standardization.

Abbreviations: MAV, Metabolically active volume; IMAT, Intramuscular adipose tissue; HU, Hounsfield Units; SUB, Standardized uptake value normalized by body weight.