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Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2010 Feb 8;6(7):2467–2476. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2010.02.002

Table 5.

Porosity of solid and porous scaffolds measured through µ-CT.

	ASTM Specimen	Designed Porosity (%)			Manufacturing Induced Porosity (%)	% of Fully Dense
	ASTM Specimen	Measured¹	Target²	Diff	Manufacturing Induced Porosity (%)	% of Fully Dense
Solid	D638 //	Not Applicable			0.3	99.7
	D638 ⊥				0.9	99.1
	D695 //				0.4	99.6
	D695 ⊥				0.4	99.6
Porous	D638 1D	44.1	51.1	7.0	4.8	95.2
	D638 2D	57.5	68.5	11.0	2.6	97.4
	D638 3D	77.3	80.9	3.6	1.4	98.6
	D695 1D	44.8	56.9	12.1	2.9	97.1
	D695 2D	61.9	67.4	5.5	7.3	92.7
	D695 3D	76.5	83.3	6.8	3.4	96.6

Calculated using GEMS Microview

Calculated using Unigraphics