. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Microbiol Methods. 2014 Mar 13;100:111–120. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2014.02.020

Table 1.

Comparison of original connected volume filtration (CVF) and modified connected volume filtration (MCVF) for quantifying connected-biofilm bacteria. Analysis was started at image slice 1, image slice 2, or image slice 3 for comparison.

Beginning at Slice Number:	Using CVF	Using MCVF
Beginning at Slice Number:	Number of Connected-Biofilm Bacteria Pixels	Number of Connected-Biofilm Bacteria Pixels
1	0	33
2	31	33
3	25	25