Benefits of Carbon Fiber material for medical purpose
Carbon fiber materials find their most prevalent applications in the medical field as components for radiation-based examination and treatment devices. Typical examples include carbon fiber bed panels for X-ray, CT, and B-ultrasound systems, diagnostic headrests, and composite radiotherapy positioning plates. During radiotherapy, treatment couches and fixation bases serve as critical interfaces supporting patients while ensuring precise positioning. These components work in tandem with accelerator gantries to enable multi-angle beam delivery to target lesions. Notably, their high radiolucency—a defining advantage of carbon fiber—significantly minimizes unnecessary radiation exposure to patients.
In breast cancer radiotherapy, carbon fiber breast brackets play a pivotal role in stabilizing patient positioning with high repeatability, thereby reducing setup errors. Through meticulous alignment adjustments, these brackets optimize dose distribution, ensuring adequate coverage of tumor targets while sparing adjacent healthy tissues—particularly the lungs. This dual benefit is achieved by enhancing radiation penetration through radiolucent materials, which simultaneously diminishes scatter radiation to surrounding areas. Clinically, such brackets streamline workflow efficiency by shortening treatment durations and reducing operational burdens on medical staff.
Some items we made for medical applications using carbon fiber material
Carbon fiber composite bed panels for X-ray, CT and B-ultrasound
Carbon Fiber Breast Cancer Panel
Carbon fiber fixed bone plate
Carbon Fiber Wheelchair
Treatment couches and fixation bases are indispensable components in radiotherapy, serving to support patients and ensure precise positioning. Their integration with accelerator gantries enables multi-directional beam delivery, a critical feature for targeting lesions from optimal angles. Carbon fiber’s exceptional radiolucency—the ability to minimize radiation attenuation—stands as its most significant advantage in radiation-based medical devices. This property not only enhances treatment precision but also reduces incidental exposure to surrounding healthy tissues, underscoring its clinical value.
In breast cancer radiotherapy, carbon fiber breast brackets play a critical role in stabilizing patient positioning, enabling rapid and accurate localization with high reproducibility. These brackets effectively reduce setup errors and optimize dose distribution through precise positional adjustments, ensuring that the radiation dose to the target area is both concentrated and conformal while significantly minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy tissues—particularly the lungs. This dual benefit is achieved through the brackets’ radiolucent properties, which enhance treatment precision and mitigate unnecessary radiation scatter to adjacent organs.
In orthopedic plating for fracture fixation, a dual-objective approach is essential: maintaining functional limb mobility while ensuring the fixation site exhibits controlled flexibility. This balance allows micro-motion at the fracture site, which is critical for stimulating periosteal callus formation and accelerating external bone bridging—a key mechanism in promoting efficient fracture healing.
Medical assistive devices such as wheelchairs and stretchers leverage carbon fiber composite materials primarily for their lightweight strength and operational convenience. In manual wheelchairs, reduced weight directly alleviates the physical burden on patients during self-propulsion or caregiver handling. For electric wheelchairs, minimized mass translates to lower energy consumption, thereby extending operational runtime—a critical advantage in emergency scenarios where every minute of battery life can impact patient care. Additionally, the high strength-to-weight ratio of carbon fiber ensures structural integrity without compromising maneuverability, making it ideal for both daily mobility aids and medical transport equipment.
DISLAB possesses extensive expertise in carbon fiber manufacturing processes. Leveraging specialized structural programming software, we fully integrate three core technical capabilities: CNC design modeling, design verification, and spatial motion code operation programming. This trinity of capabilities ensures precision at every stage of production, from conceptualization to implementation.
To uphold rigorous quality standards, our facility is equipped with advanced performance testing and inspection instruments. By analyzing post-sales data of finished products, we systematically fulfill comprehensive management requirements—delivering not only high-quality components but also data-driven insights for continuous improvement.
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