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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2016 Nov 11;30(4):10.1002/nbm.3655. doi: 10.1002/nbm.3655

Table 2.

(adapted from Reference (18)). The volume magnetic susceptibilities (relative to water) of “average, normal” brain tissue in the frontal lobe

WM (ppb) GM (ppb) CSF (ppb)
Proteins  −57.3  −52.4 0.0
Lipids   69.4   29.8 0.0
Non-heme iron   55.3   55.3 4.1
Deoxyhemoglobin    2.6   11.3 0.0
Total   70.0   44.0 4.1