In this SMST-2010 presentation, Craig advocates for applying some principles from the open source and creative commons movements to medical implant design. Power to the people! This project was first introduced in a previous post, and has a permanent home at the Open Stent Design feature page. The slide show embedded below was presented at Asilomar today, and it’s offered under a creative commons attribution-share alike license – you’re free to download, adapt, and reuse the content within simple terms of the license. The presentation gives an overview of the Open Stent Design project, and presents results from some trend analysis and statistical exploration of inputs and outputs. Read on for more…

The spreadsheet based tool described in this presentation will be released on NitinolUniversity.com shortly, so stay tuned.