title: New variable porosity flow diverter (VPOD) stent design for treatment of cerebrovascular aneurysms.
abstract: Using flow diverting Stents for intracranial aneurysm repair has been an area of recent active research. While current commercial flow diverting stents rely on a dense mesh of braided coils for flow diversion, our group has been developing a method to selectively occlude the aneurysm neck, without endangering nearby perforator vessels. In this paper, we present a new method of fabricating the low porosity patch, a key element of such asymmetric vascular stents (AVS).
authors.affiliation: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Toshiba Stroke Research Center, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14221, USA. hsuri@ buffalo.edu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suri
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Ionita
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Baier
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rudin
mesh_terms: D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D016062:Porosity; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015607:Stents