Crimping and deployment of metallic and polymeric stents -- finite element modelling

Abstract

The introduction of the Driver Coronary Stent marks the first use of a cobalt-based alloy in a modular stent design. This Technical Bulletin compares the chemical composition of the cobalt alloy to 316L stainless steel and discusses the physical properties of the cobalt alloy that make it ideally suited for current and future stenting applications.