FASTIC – Femtosecond-pulsed-laser Augment/bioglass Sintering Technique for Implant Customisation

该项目汇集了互补的学术和商业组织的联盟，包括：超快激光，材料和骨科植入物的专家。其目的是开发新技术，使外科医生能够在手术时定制关节置换术，以应对因植入物失败而需要翻修或骨癌导致的严重骨丢失的罕见情况。该技术将涉及手持激光器和新的整形外科生物材料，这些材料经过调整可以在不提高周围骨骼温度的情况下被激光熔化。该项目开发的技术有可能改变这些复杂病例的治疗方法，并可应用于其他需要快速制造而不升高温度的领域。

This project brings together a consortium of complementary academic and commercial organisations, including: specialists in ultra-fast lasers, materials and orthopaedic implants. The aim is to develop new technology to allow surgeons to customise joint replacements at the time of surgery on the rare occasions when there is significant bone loss either from a failed implant that needs to be revised or from bone cancer. The technology will involve hand held lasers and new orthopaedic biomaterials tuned to be laser melted without raising the temperature of the surrounding bone. The technology developed during this project has the potential to transform treatment of these complex cases and has application in other fields requiring rapid maufacturing without raising temperatures.