The application of shape memory alloys in medicine
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The application of shape memory alloys in medicine
Mechanical Engineering Publications, 1996
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Shape memory alloys
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Description
Since their discovery in the 1960s, shape memory alloys have been developed for a wide range of applications. However, it was not until the 1970s that the use of memory metals in medicine started to receive attention. Since then, a multitude of clinical functions have been looked into, all of which use the Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti) shape memory alloy which has been shown to have good biocompatibility properties. Although a relatively new alloy, a few medical applications incorporating its properties have already been developed to the commerical stage including vena cava filters, dental archwires and orthopaedic clips and staples. All of these use the thermo-mechanical properties portrayed by the alloys in the shape memory family. Further development in different medical fields is also being carried out with increasing interest. These include intravascular stenting, tracheobrochial stenting, uretheral stenting, rectal stenting, clinical tools and aneurysm clips.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to shape memory alloys (SMAs): the history of shape memory alloys
- the mechanics of the shape memory effect. Characteristics of shape memory alloys in medical applications: biocompatability of NiTi alloy
- the mechanical attributes of the NiTi alloy. The inferior vena cava filter: brief history of vena cava filters and their development
- the development of the SMA inferior vena caval filters
- recent recent into the SMA inferior vena cava filter. The use of NiTi SMA for intravascular applications: intravascular endprosthesis
- other intravascular devices. Present and future orthopaedic applications: present orthopaedic applications of SMAs
- future possible orthopaedic applications of SMAs. Other applications of the SMA: dental archwires
- other thermally-activated SMA stents
- NiTi clinical instruments
- cranial aneursm clips
- intravascular grafts.
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