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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2019 Apr 11;67(1):177–184. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2910551

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2.

Idealized deformation of stented trachea under external pressure. (a) Unloaded stent and trachea. (b) Under pressure, stent diameter decreases and tracheal tissue is stretched inward.