Follow this link to the details of the coming ASME webnar.

http://catalog.asme.org/Education/Webinar/Nitinol_Webinar.cfm

Xiao-Yan Gong, PhD

Stent and Nitinol have revolutionized the medicine.  In past decades, guidewires, stents, filters and many minimumly invasive devices and implants are made of Nitinol and they proved to be very successful.

However, the fatigue behavior of Nitinol has not been well understood.  As a consequences, many stent fractures have been observed in-vivo.  Below is a list of misconcepts that may contribute to the widely observed in-vivo fractures on Nitinol stents: