title: Effect of Stent Radial Force on Stress Pattern After Deployment: A Finite Element Study.
abstract: The present article presents a method for assessing the radial stiffness of nitinol stents. An idealized stent model was created, and its radial stiffness was calculated by means of finite element modeling. The calculations were validated against experimental measurements. The variation of radial stiffness with geometrical dimensions was calculated, and the effect of increasing radial stiffness on endovascular deployment was analyzed. Peak tensile and compressive stresses as well as stent penetration were calculated in the case of an idealized pulmonary artery model having realistic dimensions as well as stiffness. The results of stress calculations were compared with a second set of simulations, where an idealized behavior of the stent (uniform expansion to a theoretical contact diameter) was modeled. The results show how in reality nitinol stents behave in a non-ideal way, having a non-uniform expansion and exerting non-uniform pressure on the contact areas with the artery. Such non-ideality decreases though with the increase in radial stiffness. The radial force alone may be insufficient in describing the stent-artery interaction, and numerical modeling proves to be necessary for capturing such complexity.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borghi
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Olive
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bahmanyar
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McLeod
keywords: biomaterials; modeling; superalloys
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