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

拟议的工作旨在开发一种可变成分的智能支架，该支架使用3D打印技术由生物相容性材料制成。我们假设，可变成分方法将允许显著改善支架韧性超过目前的设备，从长远来看，个性化的，患者特定的支架可以打印使用来自患者的医学图像的3D分割的信息。该方法也可能应用于动脉瘤的支架结构。

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.