Rapid Technologies in medicine:What can, cant be done and why.
Medicine was already at the very early develop-ments of rapid technologies an interesting and suc-cessful field of application. Looking back at the historic evolution, it is surprising that it was pos-sible for such an advanced and at times immature technology to penetrate in an overregulated, con-servative area as the medical world. This article looks at recent developments that have managed once more to manouvre within the boundaries of current regulatory affaires: custom made implants and illustrates them with two case studies. One case study clearly shows that Rapid Manufactur-ing can be used for implants and therefore paves the way for faster, more accurate, better planned implant surgeries than is possible with conventional techniques. The rest of this article shows where the current problems still occur and what could be done in the future to solve them.
Michel Janssens
国际会议
北京
英文
135-140
2008-11-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）