Figure 1

Computational vessels implanted with 12 mm stents that conform to (flexible, left) or cause straightening of (inflexible, right) an ideal, curved coronary artery constructed based on the diameter and curvature measured in a canine left anterior descending coronary artery in vivo. The pericardial and myocardial luminal surfaces are indicated on the figure. Computational vessels were created consisting of 8 axial and circumferential repeating strut sections that were implanted using a stent-to-artery diameter ratio of 1.2 The thickness of all stent struts was 0.096 mm. The width of all stent struts was 0.197 mm.