Comparison of dry and wet fibre laser profile cutting of thin 316L stainless steel tubes for medical device applications

Abstract In medical coronary stent fabrication, high precision profile cutting with minimum post-processing is desirable. Existing methods of profiling thin tubular metallic materials are based mainly on the use of Nd:YAG lasers. In recent studies fibre lasers have been used for stent cutting. However, for profiling thin (

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