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Picosecond laser micromachining of nitinol and platinum-iridium alloy for coronary stent applications
(Springer-Verlag, 2012-03)
The demand for micromachining of coronary stents by means of industrial lasers rises quickly for treating coronary artery diseases, which cause more than one million deaths each year. The most widely used types of laser ...
Underwater femtosecond laser micromachining of thin nitinol tubes for medical coronary stent manufacture
(Springer-Verlag, 2012-06)
Microprofiling of medical coronary stents has been dominated by the use of Nd:YAG lasers with pulse lengths in the range of a few milliseconds, and material removal is based on the melt ejection with a high-pressure gas. ...
Three-phase 3D modelling of a laser cutting process using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
(Laser Institute of America, 2012)
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is used to develop a numerical model to simulate the three-phase laser cutting process for medical coronary stent manufacture. The open-source code SPHysics is used to model the ...