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Article: Laser-based processes may help create better artificial joints, arterial stents.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, September 16 (ANI): Scientists hope that laser-based processes may help create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants 10 times faster, and less expensively.
Yung Shin, a professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Purdue's Center for Laser-Based Manufacturing, stresses the need for new technologies to meet the huge global market for artificial hips and knees, insisting that the worldwide population of people younger than 40 who receive hip implants is expected to be 40 million annually by 2010, and double to 80 million by 2030.
Besides speeding production to meet the anticipated demand, Shin says ...