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development. Hemodynamics effects of more stent designs and stent parameters, fluidsolid
interaction, and patient-specific geometries will be investigated in future work,
which provides very useful guideline for carotid stent technology.
6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work is supported by Biomedical Engineering Programme (BEP) grant IHPC/10-
200212, under Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
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