Image Processing
The serial 2-dimensional image slices of the sintered wicks were imported into Simpleware ScanIP where the segmentation was performed based on a simple thresholding operation, with the threshold value selected to match the manufacturer quoted porosity (open volume fraction). Prior to segmentation, the scan data was also suitably filtered employing the metal artefact reduction filter in ScanIP. Following this, a floodfill operation was also performed, to retain only the connected solid phase.