The effect of design on endovascular embolisation device performance

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Cerebral aneurysms have presented considerable challenges to effective treatment since their first clinical observation. For some 100 years the only clinical solution was dangerous and often debilitating open-surgery in the form of a craniotomy. The safety and efficiency of cerebral aneurysm treatment was greatly improved in the early- 1990s with the introduction of minimally invasive procedures such as endovascular coiling. The development in the mid-2000s of low-...

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Authors: Peach, T

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-vg9q91bzp
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: flow-diverter stent; Computational fluid dynamics; Cerebral aneurysm; Neuroradiology; Medical devices
• Subjects: Computational fluid dynamics; Medical devices; Engineering; Neuroradiology