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The Density and Material Composition of the Tissues Used in the Simplified Zubal Phantom
| Material composition weights (%) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tissue | Density (g cm−3) | H | C | N | O | Na | Mg | P | S | Cl | Ar | K | Ca |
| Air | 0.0012 | — | — | 75.5 | 23.2 | — | — | — | — | — | 1.3 | — | — |
| Lung | 0.296 | 10.3 | 10.5 | 3.1 | 74.9 | 0.2 | — | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | — | 0.2 | — |
| Soft tissues | 1.04 | 10.3 | 13.4 | 3.0 | 72.3 | 0.2 | — | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | — | 0.2 | — |
| Bone | 1.4 | 6.6 | 31.0 | 3.3 | 39.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 6.1 | 0.2 | — | — | — | 13.2 |
The “—” indicates that the element is not present in the material definition of the tissue.
