The use of 3D printing techniques in the preparation of biocompatible materials

提出的工作旨在利用3D打印技术开发一种由生物相容性材料衍生的可变成分智能支架。我们假设可变成分方法将使支架的韧性比现有设备有显著提高。从长远来看，个性化的、针对患者的支架可以使用来自患者医学图像的3D分割信息来打印。这种方法也有可能应用于主动脉动脉瘤的支架结构。

The proposed work aims to develop a variable composition smart stent derived from biocompatiblematerials using 3D printing techniques. We hypothesise that variable compostion approaches willallow significant improvement in stent toughness over current devices, In the long term, personalised,patient specific stents could be printed using information from 3D segmentation of the patient'smedical images. The approach could also potentially be applied to stent structures for aorticaneurysms.