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

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

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.