Imaging of Cell-to-Material Interfaces by SEM after in situ Focused Ion Beam Milling on Flat Surfaces and Complex 3D-Fibrous Structures

In today’s clinical practice medical devices have to be inserted into the patient’s body to improve, restore or even substitute diseased or lost organ functions. Therefore, such medical devices will have intimate contact to the adjacent tissue and body fluids for different periods of time. Medical implants are produced of different materials like metals, polymers, ceramics or combinations of those and the implant