Manufacturing medical devices by vapor deposition
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Abstract
A method of forming a medical device, the method including the steps of providing a substrate, depositing a metallic layer on the substrate by a vapor deposition process, and removing the metallic layer from the substrate. The metallic layer thus removed is the medical device or serves as a basis for forming the medical device. In another aspect, the present invention includes a medical device formed by the process of the present invention.
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1-23. -23. (canceled)
- 24. An implantable medical device, comprising one or more biocompatible metallic members, said one or more members having a monocrystalline, monoisotopic morphology.
- 30. An implantable medical device comprising one or more biocompatible metallic members having a nanocrystalline morphology.
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