Corrosion resistance studies on grain-boundary etched drug-eluting stents

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1377-1387

  Rettig, Ralf ^a   Kunze, Julia ^a   Stöver, Michael ^b   Wintermantel, Erich ^b   Virtanen, Sannakaisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CORROSION RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINLESS STEEL;

CYCLOVOLTAMMETRY; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; GRAIN-BOUNDARY ETCHED; POTENTIOSTATIC EXPERIMENTS; RINGER SOLUTION;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS;

CHROMIUM; NICKEL; NITRIC ACID; OXALIC ACID; RINGER SOLUTION; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CORROSION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYTE TRANSPORT; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CORROSION; DRUG CARRIERS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MATERIALS TESTING; OXIDES; STAINLESS STEEL; STENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34347245614     PISSN: 09574530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10856-007-0152-z     Document Type: Article

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