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challenge to the way medical doctors approach a case that might provide a guide to
efficiency based on simple outcomes immediately after a stent deployment. Models
proposed here also do not consider the way progressive thrombosis development would
help or oppose the success of a deployment, but only give an engineering insight to
immediate outcomes after a stent deployment. Another progressive thing that might be
considered important is the endothelium layer that covers the stent gradually.
Considering the velocity values obtained for Patients 1 and 3 and the success of
treatment in 12 months time, it can be deduced that endothelium progress is crucial to
long-term efficiency of a stent application.
6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to express their thanks to Acusim Software (USA), Balt
Extrusion (France), Berka Ltd (Turkey), HP-Turkey and Philips (Netherlands) for their
contributions in software support, development and compute power resource enablings.
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