FIG. 5.

3D visualization of the results from Directional Shrink-Wrap of the scaffold fabricated with acetic acid, for comparison with the measured values of % interconnectivity. At a constant value of 25% interconnectivity, the corresponding accessible pore space could (a) be restricted to the scaffold surface, or (b) provide a continuous pathway from one side of the scaffold to the other. The possible effects of increasing the Micro-CT dataset size are also shown, with a higher % interconnectivity measured from (c) than from (d), despite the considerably greater maximum accessible distance apparent in (d). Color images available online at www.liebertpub.com/tec