Development of a Clamping Device for Tensile Testing of Intracranial Flow Diverter Stents

Abstract The main danger of a brain aneurysm (a sack-like bulge on the vessel wall) is that in event rupture severe hemorrhage can occur which may cause death. However, if doctors have tools at their disposal, such as numerical models and simulations for analyzing patient-specific blood vessels, they could use them to decide particular treatment necessary so, when. For models, different mechanical characteristics flow control devices are input data. Several these properties devices, modulus elasticity tensile strength, determined by testing. In course our research, we developed clamping device suitable uniaxial testing diverter stents.