A method to determine the margin of safety for microneedles arrays

WCE 2010 - World Congress on Engineering 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1550-1554

  Forvi, E ^a,b   Soncini, M ^b   Bedoni, M ^a,c   Rizzo, F ^a   Casella, M ^a   O'Mahony, C ^d   Gramatica, F ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Array; Mechanical characterization; Microneedles

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; COMPRESSIVE TESTS; HUMAN SKIN; MARGIN OF SAFETY; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MICRONEEDLES; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

NEEDLES;

EID: 79959856445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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