Designing Materials For Medical Devices: Advanced Topics In Materials Engineering And Design For Medical Devices

The objective of the book is to provide advanced topics ranging from fatigue failure and wear of biomaterials, lasers in medicine, 3D printing of scaffolds, tissue engineering, stem cells to case studies like hip implants, heart valves left ventricular pumps and coronary stents, to name a few. It is hoped by providing such advanced topics and case studies the reader may have a deeper understanding on the design process, materials selection, regulatory compliance and an multidisciplinary app...