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BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Simulation of stent deployment in a realistic human coronary artery Frank JH Gijsen*1, Francesco Migliavacca2, Silvia Schievano3, Laura Socci2, Lorenza Petrini2, Attila Thury1, Jolanda J Wentzel1, Anton FW van der Steen1, Patrick WS Serruys1 and Gabriele Dubini2 Address: 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcentre Ee2322, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics, Structural Engineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy and 3Cardiothoracic Unit, University College of London Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK Email: Frank JH Gijsen* - f.gijsen@erasmusmc.nl; Francesco Migliavacca - francesco.migliavacca@polimi.it; Silvia Schievano - s.schievano@ich.ucl.ac.uk; Laura Socci - socci@stru.polimi.it; Lorenza Petrini - lorenza.petrini@polimi.it; Attila Thury - attilathury@; Jolanda J Wentzel - j.wentzel@erasmusmc.nl; Anton FW van der Steen - a.vandersteen@erasmusmc.nl; Patrick WS Serruys - p.w.j.c.serruys@erasmusmc.nl; Gabriele Dubini - gabriele.dubini@polimi.it * Corresponding author Published: 6 August 2008 Received: 21 December 2007 Accepted: 6 August 2008 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2008, 7:23 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-7-23 This article is available from: /content/7/1/23 ? 2008 Gijsen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The process of restenosis after a stenting procedure is related to local biomechanical environment. Arterial wall stresses caused by the interaction of the stent with the vascular wall and possibly stress induced stent strut fra