Table 3.

Relative permittivity (Mean ± SD) calculated by Full-form, Magnitude-based reconstruction and dielectric probe measurements.

	Dielectric Probe	Linear Birdcage Coil
Different salinities	Average Permittivity at 900 MHz	Full-form Relative Permittivity	Magnitude-based Relative Permittivity
Tube 1 (0 g/L)	78.74 ± 0.14	86.93 ± 10.03	83.25 ± 09.91^
Tube 2 (4.7 g/L)	77.66 ± 0.01	85.00 ± 13.40	82.81 ± 13.03
Tube 3 (11.7 g/L)	76.13 ± 0.06	81.95 ± 09.12	77.49 ± 10.88^
Tube 4 (25.6 g/L)	73.41 ± 0.05	72.04 ± 13.03*	69.44 ± 12.83*

For EPT reconstructions, significance (*p<0.05) was found between tube 4 and all other samples using a one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s HSD post-hoc test.

The only other significant difference was found between tubes 1 and 3 at the ^p=0.05 level.