Methods and Technologies for the Personalized Design of Open-Source Medical Devices

Díaz Lantada A.; Solórzano W.; Martínez Cendrero A.; Zapata Martínez R.; Ojeda C.; Munoz-Guijosa J.M. · Engineering Open-Source Medical Devices: A Reliable Approach for Safe, Sustainable and Accessible Healthcare (2022) · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79363-0_9

Resumen

Open-source medical devices (OSMDs) have emerged, thanks to progresses in computer-aided design, simulation, and manufacturing (CAD-CAE-CAM) software resources, to advances in manufacturing technologies, including the advent of flexible production systems and additive manufacturing, and to improvements in medical imaging technologies and in related processing software. All these parallel innovations have enabled the personalization of medical devices and its affordable and rapid manufacturing, in many cases employing tool-less approaches. They also make the design and production of complex-shaped geometries, like those required in many cases for interacting with the human body, technically and economically viable. In addition, the last couple of decades have seen a progressive diffusion of computational modeling tools and the rise of a plethora of quite reasonably priced design resources, imaging tools, and manufacturing systems, including many types of additive manufacturing technologies, which allow for a straightforward design and production with a remarkable variety of polymers, ceramics, alloys, and biomaterials, in many cases apt for medical purposes. This chapter covers the more relevant technologies and methods for personalizing OSMDs, paying special attention to available open-source and freely accessible design software, computational modeling tools, medical imaging hardware and software, and related affordable manufacturing technologies. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Instituciones: Universidad de Piura