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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biotechnol Bioeng. 2012 Jan 2;109(6):1571–1582. doi: 10.1002/bit.24412

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Optical images of multi-channel guides with varying channel diameters. The various guides are not optimized, but rather are used to demonstrate the different diameters achievable using the templating method. Nerve guide fabricated with: (A) 4-0 synthetic sutures (150μm) to produce channels 176 ± 39 μm in diameter; (B) 6-0 collagen sutures (100μm) to produce channels 117 ± 11 μm in diameter; (C) 6-0 synthetic sutures (70μm) to produce channels 98 ± 9 μm in diameter; and (D) 10-0 synthetic sutures (20μm) to produce channels 33 ± 6 μm in diameter. Scale bar = 500 μm.