Rapid Prototyping and Tooling of Custom-Made Tracheobronchial Stents |
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Authors: | C. S. Lim P. Eng S. C. Lin C. K. Chua Y. T. Lee |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SG;(2) Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Management, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, SG |
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Abstract: | Rapid prototyping (RP) and rapid tooling (RT) techniques can be applied to the field of medicine primarily because of their ability to produce customised profiles and geometries in relatively short lead times. In this paper, the process by which these techniques can be applied for the production of customised tracheobronchial stents for the purpose of maintaining patency in an occluded respiratory tract is described. A comparison of RP systems was carried out to establish the preferred RP method to produce the master model. The vacuum casting RT process was then used to produce the stent. |
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Keywords: | : Airway management Customised stenting Rapid prototyping (RP) Rapid tooling (RT) Tracheobronchial stent Vacuum casting |
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