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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2011 Dec 9;7(2):99–111. doi: 10.1002/term.497

Table 1.

Fabricated scaffold dimensions

PLLA 50:50PLGA
Large Medium Small Large Medium Small
Pore size (mm) 0.821 ± 0.041 0.580 ± 0.039 0.285 ± 0.026 0.840 ± 0.057 0.537 ± 0.033 0.258 ± 0.037
Strut size (mm) 0.914 ± 0.028 0.594 ± 0.033 0.413 ± 0.017 0.898 ± 0.045 0.622 ± 0.050 0.448 ± 0.039
Porosity (%) 52.1 ± 0.95 45.4 ± 3.21 32.1 ± 3.50 52.9 ± 2.17 43.8 ± 2.21 30.5 ± 3.30
Surface/Volume (mm2/ mm3) 4.57 ± 0.22 4.54 ± 0.15 5.40 ± 0.17 4.65 ± 0.25 4.88 ± 0.31 5.43 ± 0.59