Contribution to bioabsorbable stent manufacture with additive manufacturing technologies

The main motivation of this work was to analyse the feasibility of the current stent’s manufacturing process to produce the new bioresorbable stents (BRS) as well as study new manufacturing methods. Fibre Laser Cutting (FLC) has been selected because is the current manufacturing process for stents,...

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Autor: Guerra Sánchez, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/667867
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667867
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Stent
Bioabsrobable
Bioabsorbible
Additive manufacturing
Fabricació additiva
Fabricación aditiva
3D printing
Impressió 3D
Impresión 3D
Polymers
Polímers
Polímeros
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Sumario:The main motivation of this work was to analyse the feasibility of the current stent’s manufacturing process to produce the new bioresorbable stents (BRS) as well as study new manufacturing methods. Fibre Laser Cutting (FLC) has been selected because is the current manufacturing process for stents, and 3D-Printing (3DP) because its capability to process different types of materials for medical applications and their economic aspects. Stents have been selected for being one of the most implanted biomedical device in the world. The thesis focuses on improve the bioresorbable stent’s manufacturing processes, establishing relationships between the process parameters and the key stent aspects, namely, precision, mechanical properties, and medical properties, and reduce the costs derived of the manufacturing process