Experimental Research on Balloon-expandable Endovascular Stent Expansion

The application background and experimental research overview of medical endovascular stent are presented. Based on the analytical comparison of the current research achievements, the life cycle of medical vascular stent, which is composed of three phases of mounting, deployment and long-term in vivo service, is pointed out and the characteristics of stent expansion process in the life cycle are emphasized on. The experimental scheme of in vitro stent expansion based on the machine vision technology in LabVIEW is presented. The selected component devices and measurement program for experiment are expatiated. A special drug-loading stent was expanded on the assembled platform of selected equipments and experimental results are analyzed. The experimental scheme presented in the paper provides powerful experimental support for the computer simulation of stent expansion process by the finite element analysis.