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Selective laser sintering in biomedical engineering

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Selective laser sintering (SLS) is a solid freeform fabrication technique, developed by Carl Deckard for his master’s thesis at the University of Texas, patented in 1989. SLS manufacturing is a technique that produces physical models through a selective solidification of a variety of fine powders. SLS technology is getting a great amount of attention in the clinical field. In this paper the characteristics features of SLS and the materials that have been developed for are reviewed together with a discussion on the principles of the above-mentioned manufacturing technique. The applications of SLS in tissue engineering, and at-large in the biomedical field, are reviewed and discussed.

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Mazzoli, A. Selective laser sintering in biomedical engineering. Med Biol Eng Comput 51, 245–256 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-012-1001-x

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