DCL coating of textile blood vessels using PLD

Authors

KOCOUREK Tomáš JELÍNEK Miroslav PODLAHA Jiří ŽIŽKOVÁ Věra

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Appl phys A-Mater.Sci Process
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Biophysics
Keywords prostesis covered carbon
Description Textile blood vessels with a length of 30 cm were coated with amorphous diamond like carbon (DLC) layers with thicknesses to 200nm. The layers were created by pulsed laser deposition in vacuum or argon ambient. The preliminary biocompatibility results from in vivo tests with sheep are given.
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