Compare Water Content of Muscle, Liver, Fat, Heart, Cartilage, Bone Marrow

[restfull]

How would you rate the following in terms of water content:

muscle, liver, fat, heart, cartilage, bone marrow

and where could i find a table of comparison...?

 

[jim mcnamara]

Water content is usually described in terms, depending on what source you're looking at, as percent by weight of free water, bound water (sometimes called water of hydration), or as fresh weight minus dry weight (Relative Water Content). Sometimes it expressed in terms of water potential - rate of water exchange between the medium and sample.
This list goes on...

The ways this is measured are many, and the results vary a lot. To my knowledge there is no "standard" value.

What exactly are you trying to do?

 

[restfull]

i'm trying to find out why the spin spin relaxation T2 increases for the tissues in that order

 

[jim mcnamara]

You are going to have to measure the water content yourself.
The way you handle tissues affects moisture content.

You are already measuring moisture content :)

spin-spin T2 is used to measure moisture - see this for starters:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12463698&dopt=Abstract