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3D Printed Porous 45S5 Bioceramic
           scaffolds  (40  wt%)  produced  large  shrinkage  after   design, the porosity of average perforated cylindrical
           sintering.  Moreover,  based  on  the  scaffold  structure   scaffold  (Figure  5A)  was  higher  than  that  of  layered

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           Figure 5. Images of average perforated cylindrical scaffold. (A) A printed layered perforated cylindrical scaffold. (B) A sintered scaffold.
           (A and B) show images of the overall structures of the scaffolds. (a1 – a2) and (b1 – b2) show the struts of the 3D printed scaffolds, and
           (a3 – a4) and (b3 – b4) are the SEM images of their microstructures.

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           Figure 6. CT reconstruction of scaffold 3D images. (A) Average perforated cylindrical scaffold. (B) Layered perforated cylindrical scaffold.

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