The use of rapid prototyping to assist medical applications

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-58

  Gibson, I ^a   Cheung, L K ^a   Chow, S P ^a   Cheung, W L ^a   Beh, S L ^a   Savalani, M ^a   Lee, S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Medical equipment; Modelling; Rapid prototypes

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CASE STUDIES; MEDICAL CASES; RAPID PROTOTYPES;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 31544443577     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540610637273     Document Type: Article

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