Selective laser sintering of customised medical implants using biocomposite materials

Tehnicki Vjesnik

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 23-27

  Cruz, Fernando ^a   Coole, Tim ^b   Bocking, Chris ^b   Simoes, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

^b BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioceramics; Biopolymers; PLLA HA composites; Rapid prototyping of medical models; Selective laser sintering

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SINTERING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING (SLS);

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION; SINTERING;

EID: 0141940146     PISSN: 13303651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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