Fig. 2.

The left panel shows the results of the computational simulation for patient 11. From this 3D representation, 2D slices are captured separately for the implantation site (top section of the central panel) and for the stent (bottom section of the central panel). The slices are converted to black & white in Matlab, combining the information together (right panel): the inner portion of the implantation site, which will be subsequently used for all calculations is depicted in blue; the stent strut centroids are represented by green dots, whilst the interpolating spline in light blue; the yellow dots represent the maxima of the radial distance between stent and implantation site in this cross section; the red crosses show only the maxima indicating a continuous gap along the whole length of the stent. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)