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The Paton Welding Journal, 2008, #11, 11-19 pages
Welding and related technologies for medical applications
B.E. Paton
E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the NASU. 11 Kazymyr Malevych Str., 03150, Kyiv, Ukraine.Abstract
Considered are R&D efforts and experience of using welding and related technologies in different medical applications: electric welding of soft live tissues to join damaged tissues and recover vital activity of human and animal organs; hyperthermic methods for welding, cutting and treatment of live biological tissues; magnetron sputtering of coatings used to cure cardiovascular diseases; implants, prostheses and surgical instruments of shape memory alloys; bioceramic microplasma coatings for endoprostheses; composite materials produced by using nanotechnologies for targeted transportation of medical preparations in a living organism; and steam-plasma technologies for disposal of medical wastes
Keywords: electric welding of soft live tissues, hyperthermic welding methods, magnetron sputtering of coatings on stents, implants, prostheses of shape memory alloy, bioceramic coatings on endoprostheses, magnetic nanoparticles for transportation of medical preparations in living organism, steam-plasma technologies for disposal of medical wastes
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