Our capricious vessels: The influence of stent design and vessel geometry on the mechanics of intracranial aneurysm stent deployment

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1353-1359

  De Bock, S ^a   Iannaccone, F ^a   De Santis, G ^a   De Beule, M ^a,b   Mortier, P ^a,b   Verhegghe, B ^a,b   Segers, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b FEops Bvba   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apposition; Cerebral aneurysm; Endovascular treatment; Finite element method; Stent

Indexed keywords

APPOSITION; AREA COVERING; CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS; CLOSED CELLS; ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS; OPEN-CELL; PATIENT SPECIFIC; STENT; STENT DEPLOYMENTS; STENT DESIGN; STENTING; VASCULAR GEOMETRY; VESSEL GEOMETRY; VESSEL WALLS; VIRTUAL TOOL;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; PATIENT TREATMENT; STRUTS;

STENTS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; STENT;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860209928     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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