Medical Product Development through Additive Manufacturing
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 1736
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; innovation; commercialization
Interests: additive manufacturing; medical product development; data preparation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Internationally, significant progress has been achieved in using additive manufacturing (AM) to develop groundbreaking solutions for individual patient cases, with significant impact on patients’ lives. As such, there is a need to publish related outcomes to communicate successful results and draw attention to both AM and the medical/surgery field.
On these bases, we are pleased to propose a Special Issue which will illustrate the benefits of AM to both patients and surgeons. The Special Issue encourages contributions that may include but are not limited to:
- Design for AM of patient-specific/customized implants; surgical guides and implant placement guides;
- Patient-specific/customized implants using AM;
- Patient-specific/customized surgery or placement guides (can be combined with the above);
- Design and manufacturing of assistive devices;
- Materials research related to medical device/medical product development;
- Research on medical products using AM from the COVID-19 pandemic;
- Design and manufacturing of patient care/patient treatment devices using both additive and conventional (advanced) manufacturing techniques and design specifications/requirements.
Prof. Dr. Deon De Beer
Dr. Michéle Truscott
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- design optimization
- additive manufacturing
- advanced manufacturing
- patent-specific implants
- surgery guides
- cutting guides
- placement guides and mechanisms
- AM materials
- AM methods
- role of quality management systems
- ethical clearance
