Papers Published

1. Agrawal, C.M. and Clark, H.G. and Leopold, D.A. and Haas, K.F., Duke intravascular bioabsorbable stent. Effects of geometry and fiber draw ratio, Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomaterials in conjunction with the International Biomaterials Symposium, vol. 14 (1991), pp. 118 - .
   (last updated on 2007/04/16)

   Abstract:
   In this study, the effects of the monofilament draw ratio, and stent and monofilament diameter on the deformation and collapse pressure of IBS. Intravascular Bioadsorbable Stents were investigated. It is shown that the maximum pressure that stents with constant monofilament diameter can withstand before collapse increases with decreasing stent diameter. Also, at a given pressure below the collapse pressure, the fractional decrement in the stent diameter is less with decreasing initial diameter.

   Keywords:
   Biomedical Equipment--Catheters;Biomedical Engineering--Cardiology;