Fabrication of low cost soft tissue prostheses with the desktop 3D printer

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  He, Yong ^a,b   Xue, Guang Huai ^a,b   Fu, Jian Zhong ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DEVICES; EAR; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; PRINTING; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PROSTHESIS; SOFT TISSUE THERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EAR; HUMANS; PRINTING; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; THERAPY, SOFT TISSUE;

EID: 84937905931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06973     Document Type: Article

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