Fabrication of polymeric scaffold via additive manufacturing

• Main Author: Foo, Yong Sheng
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Material testing and characterization; DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61312
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of the death in the world today. The most common form of the disease is atherosclerosis which is the narrowing of the blood vessels due to the deposition of plague on the vessel walls. Treatment of the disease is dependent on its severity and often invo...