Business Area Medical Technology
Our strength: Bundled expertise under one umbrella
We are researching, developing and optimizing medical devices, products and processes as a cross-sectional topic in almost all R&D departments. No matter what your question is: Our physicists, chemists, biologists, and mechanical and electrical engineers work together across the disciplines and departments to create your custom solution. They cover the whole spectrum of relevant disciplines:
- Tissue Engineering
- Imaging for diagnosis, therapy and research (microscopy)
- Light-tissue interaction
- Optogenetics & cell therapy
- Applicator design for therapy and therapy control as well as diagnosis
- Manufacturing technology for implants (design and surfaces)
- 3D printing of medical products
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Processing (forming etc.) of MT materials
- Biopolymers, silicons, fused silica, ceramics
- Shape memory alloys (nitinol), magnesium, titan, stainless steel, tantalum, platinum
Applications

Tissue Engineering by Two-Photonen-Polymerisation (2PP)
Component: Scaffolds
Substrate: Bio-compatible materials
Field of application: Reconstruction of tissue and organs

Manufacturing process: Selective Laser
Melting (SLM®)
Component: Micro-actor for Cochlea implant electrodes
Material: Nickel-titan (shape memory alloy)
Advantages: Bio-compatible, superelastic,
high ductility
Field of application: Medical implants

Device: Hand-held OCT-laryngoscope with autofocus and image stabilization
Diagnostic method: Examination of the larynx using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Image: Cross-section of the vocal chords
Advantages: No anesthesia required, short duration of the examination
Field of application: Applicator design for diagnosis

Surgical technique: fs-LASIK
Operation step: Flap creation (corneal flap)
Contribution of the LZH: Basic principle, feasibility, functional pattern and prototype
tests
Market share of the technique: approx. 30%
Field of application: Ophthalmology

Prototype design: Gold-nanoparticle assisted laser transfection (GNOME) for sample preparation. Suitable for all standard micro
titer plates
Advantages: High transfection efficiency, minimum impact on the target cells, high
vitality rates and short process times
Fields of application: Drug Screening, protein production and gene regulation

Process: Surface treatment
Component: Stent
Material: Austenitic stainless steel (1.4404)
Scale: Micro
Field of application: Medical implants

Regulatory Affairs and approval of medical products
Expertise: Consulting for regulatory issues, for the market introduction of medical products and support for document creation
Medical product directives: EU Medical
Device Regulation (MDR) 2017/745 and In
Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation 2017/746, and their national implementation
Fields of application: Medical technology and biotechnology

Device: Scanning Laser Optical Tomograph (SLOT)
Diagnosis: Examination of the proliferation and migration of bacteria on dental implants
Image: Superimposed raw data (green: distribution on the implant surface; red: distribution and absorption of the colored bacteria)
Advantages: non-invasive imaging, non-ionizing radiation with nontransparent material
Fields of application: Implant measure-
ment, surface roughness of 3D components