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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2007 Mar 29;28(19):2978–2986. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2006.11.033

Table 1.

Pore diameters and pore throat diameters

Classification Pore Diameters (μm)a Pore Interconnect Diameters (μm)a graphic file with name nihms22857t1.jpgb
Small Pores 62 ± 6 18 ± 2
Large Pores 147 ± 15 62 ± 8
a

based on SEM images (n=12);

b

representative SEM image of porous structure formed from a PMMA sphere template, where the pore interconnects can be seen by the smaller black dots (scale bar = 500 μm)