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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 12.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2017 Feb 3;3(4):648–657. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00043

Table 2.

Porosities Calculated from CAD and for Fabricated Specimens Given As Mean ± Standard Deviation, Total Surface Areas, and Average Cross-Section (CS) Areas Calculated from CAD

porosity
design CAD (%) unsintered (%) sintered (%) surface area (cm2) volume (cm3) average CS area (cm2)
orthogonal 53 15.5 ± 2.5 8.1 ± 3.3 46.71 1.436 0.4047
alternating 54 15.2 ± 3.1 14.3 ± 2.3 45.62 1.407 0.2087