3-D printing offers innovative method to deliver medication
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
3-D printing could become a powerful tool in customizing interventional radiology treatments to individual patient needs, with clinicians having the ability to construct devices to a specific size and shape. Researchers and engineers collaborated to print catheters, stents and filaments to deliver antibiotics and chemotherapeutic medications to a targeted area in cell cultures.