Full Description
3D Printing for Biomedical Engineering: Additive Manufacturing Processes, Properties, and Applications combines cutting-edge research developments with fundamental concepts related to processing, properties, and applications of advanced additive manufacturing technology in the medical field. State-of-the-art 3D bioprinting techniques such as the manufacturing of mini-organs for new drug testing as an alternative to animal testing are covered, as are reverse engineering techniques for the improvement of additive manufactured biomedical products. The book starts with chapters introducing readers to currently available additive manufacturing techniques for biomedical prototypes, along with design, development, process, and parameter considerations for these methods.
Following chapters cover the mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties of 3D printed biomedical prototypes. The next section of the book discusses 3D printing in different biomedical fields, such as in heart surgery, intervertebral disc implants, dentistry, facial reconstructive surgery, oral surgery, spinal surgery, and more. The book concludes with a section outlining immediate and future challenges in the field as well as related environmental and ethical issues.
Contents
Section A: Introduction, Fabrication, Properties and Testing
1. Introduction to 3D Printing Technologies and Biomedical Prototypes
2. 3D Printing Methods for Making Biomedical Components: Process and Parameters
3. Design and Development of Biomedical Devices
4. Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes
5. Thermal Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes
6. Dielectric and Optical Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes
7. Surface Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes
8. Errors and Accuracy of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes
9. Improvement of 3D Printing with Reverse Engineering
Section B: Implementation of 3D Printing in Biomedical Fields
10. 3D Printing for Congenital Heart Surgery
11. 3D Printing for Cranioplasty Implants
12. 3D Printing for Customized Intervertebral Disc Implants
13. 3D Printing for Dentistry
14. 3D Printing for Facial Reconstructive Surgery
15. 3D Printing for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
16. 3D Printing for Orthopaedic Surgery
17. 3D Printing for Prosthetic Sockets
18. 3D Printing for Repairing Fracture Bone Defects
19. 3D Printing for Spinal Surgery
20. 3D Printing for Surgical Aid Tools
21. 3D Printing for Tissue Engineering
22. 3D Printing for Therapeutic Strategy
Section C: Challenges, Risks and Scopes
23. Opportunities, Challenges and Potentials of 3DPrinting
24. Environmental Issues and Welfares of 3D Printing
25. Ethical and Legal Issues with 3D Printing
