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Popov VV, Muller-Kamskii G, Kovalevsky A, et al. Design and 3D-printing of titanium bone implants: brief review of approach and clinical cases. Biomed Eng Lett. 2018;8(4):337-344doi: 10.1007/s13534-018-0080-5.
Popov, V. V., Muller-Kamskii, G., Kovalevsky, A., Dzhenzhera, G., Strokin, E., Kolomiets, A., & Ramon, J. (2018). Design and 3D-printing of titanium bone implants: brief review of approach and clinical cases. Biomedical engineering letters, 8(4), 337-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13534-018-0080-5
Popov, Vladimir V, et al. "Design and 3D-printing of titanium bone implants: brief review of approach and clinical cases." Biomedical engineering letters vol. 8,4 (2018): 337-344. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13534-018-0080-5
Popov VV, Muller-Kamskii G, Kovalevsky A, Dzhenzhera G, Strokin E, Kolomiets A, Ramon J. Design and 3D-printing of titanium bone implants: brief review of approach and clinical cases. Biomed Eng Lett. 2018 Jul 12;8(4):337-344. doi: 10.1007/s13534-018-0080-5. eCollection 2018 Nov. PMID: 30603218; PMCID: PMC6209081.
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Biomed Eng Lett. 2018 Jul 12;8(4):337-344. doi: 10.1007/s13534-018-0080-5. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Design and 3D-printing of titanium bone implants: brief review of approach and clinical cases.

Biomedical engineering letters

Vladimir V Popov, Gary Muller-Kamskii, Aleksey Kovalevsky, Georgy Dzhenzhera, Evgeny Strokin, Anastasia Kolomiets, Jean Ramon

Affiliations

  1. 1Israel Institute of Metals, Technion R&D Foundation, 3200003 Technion City, Haifa, Israel.
  2. Polygon Medical Engineering, Moscow, Russia.
  3. 3Industrial Design Program, Technion - Institute of Technology, 3200003 Technion City, Haifa, Israel.

PMID: 30603218 PMCID: PMC6209081 DOI: 10.1007/s13534-018-0080-5

Abstract

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an alternative metal fabrication technology. The outstanding advantage of AM (3D-printing, direct manufacturing), is the ability to form shapes that cannot be formed with any other traditional technology. 3D-printing began as a new method of prototyping in plastics. Nowadays, AM in metals allows to realize not only net-shape geometry, but also high fatigue strength and corrosion resistant parts. This success of AM in metals enables new applications of the technology in important fields, such as production of medical implants. The 3D-printing of medical implants is an extremely rapidly developing application. The success of this development lies in the fact that patient-specific implants can promote patient recovery, as often it is the only alternative to amputation. The production of AM implants provides a relatively fast and effective solution for complex surgical cases. However, there are still numerous challenging open issues in medical 3D-printing. The goal of the current research review is to explain the whole technological and design chain of bio-medical bone implant production from the computed tomography that is performed by the surgeon, to conversion to a computer aided drawing file, to production of implants, including the necessary post-processing procedures and certification. The current work presents examples that were produced by joint work of Polygon Medical Engineering, Russia and by TechMed, the AM Center of Israel Institute of Metals. Polygon provided 3D-planning and 3D-modelling specifically for the implants production. TechMed were in charge of the optimization of models and they manufactured the implants by Electron-Beam Melting (EBM

Keywords: 3D-printing; Additive manufacturing; Bio-medical implants; CAD design; Computed tomography; Electron beam melting; Ti–6Al–4V

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.Ethical approval was obtained in Russia according to the local guidelines.

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