. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 29.

Published in final edited form as: Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2004 Apr;5369:10.1117/12.535347. doi: 10.1117/12.535347

Table 1.

List of stainless meshes to be used as a low porosity/permeability patch for the asymmetric stents.

Mesh type	Lines per inch	Wire diameter (μm)	Width of opening (μm)	% Porosity	Permeability (μm²)
200 × 200	200	53.3	73.7	33.6%	57.0
250 × 250	250	40.6	61.0	36.0%	41.8
400 × 400	400	27.9	35.6	31.4%	12.4
500 × 500	500	25.4	25.4	25.0%	5.04