Local thickness and anisotropy approaches to characterize pore size distribution of three-dimensional porous networks

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-76

  Chiang, Martin Y M ^a   Landis, Forrest A ^a   Wang, Xianfeng ^a   Smith, Jack R ^a   Cicerone, Marcus T ^a   Dunkers, Joy ^a   Luo, Yanfeng ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ETHYLENE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; CELL MATRIX INTERACTIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LOWER LIMITS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS; NATURAL IMAGES; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS NETWORKS; POROUS OBJECT; SURFACE AREA; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; UPPER LIMITS;

SCAFFOLDS;

MACROGOL; POLYCAPROLACTONE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; WATER; POLYESTER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; POLYESTERS; POROSITY; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 66149097066     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2008.0298     Document Type: Article

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