Figure 1

Commercial Stent with additional resonator inside a water bath (a) and an implanted prototype in a rabbit aorta (b) with velocity curve over the cardiac cycle (c). a) shows an MR image of a commercially available nitinol stent with an additional resonator around a part of the metallic structure immersed in a water bath. The MR signal inside the stent lumen decreases outside the resonator (arrows) in contrast to the enhanced signal inside the resonator. b) shows one example of an in vivo image with a prototype implanted into a rabbit aorta [9, 10]. c) shows the measured velocity curve inside the prototype of image b and the spline approximation delivered by the the MRI System.