3D printing of surgical instruments for long-duration space missions

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 758-763

  Wong, Julielynn Y ^a   Pfahnl, Andreas C ^b  

^a Center for Innovative Technologies and Public Health   (Canada)

^b Devicix LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Digital fabrication; Fused deposition modeling; Space medicine; Surgery

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; ABS RESIN; ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; PLASTIC; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PRINTING; SPACE FLIGHT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ACRYLIC RESINS; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; BUTADIENES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; PLASTICS; POLYSTYRENES; PRINTING; SOFTWARE; SPACE FLIGHT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84903609069     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3898.2014     Document Type: Article

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