A porous tantalum used for medical implantation is provided, which includes a foam structure with three-dimensional interconnecting pores and produced by: mixing a solution made by organic binder and dispersant and tantalum powder to form tantalum slurry, casting the tantalum slurry into a organic foam body through impregnation until the pores of the organic foam body are filled, drying the impregnated organic foam body with the tantalum slurry to remove the dispersant, degreasing the dried organic foam body to separate the organic binder and the organic foam body from the dried tantalum slurry in a protective environment of inert gas, vacuum sintering the dried tantalum slurry to obtain a porous sintered body, and vacuum annealing then treating the porous sintered body with normal post-treatments to obtain the porous tantalum. Accordingly, the porous tantalum has well-distributed interconnecting pores and sintering neck structures resulting in good mechanical properties, and especially good ductility.
