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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 20.
Published before final editing as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2018 Nov 20:10.1109/TBME.2018.2882415. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2018.2882415

TABLE I.

EXPERIMENTALLY MEASURED RADIUS OF CURVATURE (Rc), AVERAGE NORMALIZED SIGNAL (Sn) AND AVERAGE RESONANT FREQUENCY (f0) FOR THE Type F and Type S package, under progressive levels of applied CURVATURE. MEASUREMENTS TAKEN WHILE STENT WAS MAINTAINED IN A BENT CONDITION.

Rc (cm) Sn f0 (kHz)
Type F Package
Straight 1.00 160.5
10 0.57 160.6
9 0.09 160.6
8 0.06 160.5
7 0.07 160.6
6 0.04 160.5
Type S Package
Straight 1.00 163.1
6 0.91 163.3
5 0.96 162.8
4 0.83 163.0
3 0.90 163.0