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- Published on: 8 August 2018
- Published on: 8 August 2018Repeatability when measuring porosity and pore density of flow diverters: can we measure in vivo?
The paper by Farzin et al.[1] shows interesting results about measuring porosity of fully expanded flow diverter stents using (photographic) images of the stent being assessed. In their study, authors used 3 different methods and repeated measurements by different observers to assess the porosity of stents. According to their results, the variability when measuring porosity is so large that previous works assessing it should be questioned. On the other hand, they indicate that pore density seems to be more reliable and repeatable. The study highlights the difficulty of measuring such parameter in a controlled in vitro environment. After carefully reading the article, it became clear that the most reproducible way of measuring porosity, from the 3 options studied, was M3 (based on measuring the width and length of the struts and number of struts per reference square). Furthermore, some simple assumptions should improve the results and substantially reduce errors and variability:
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1. Wire width: the value for wire width, indicated by the manufacturer, is likely to be more accurate. If this value is no to be trusted, at least in average, then the reproducibility of the manufacturing process could not be trusted. Measuring wire width directly on the images is likely to introduce error as it might be affected by reflection/refraction of light on the wire material and wire coating, as well as lens imperfections or optical aberrations in some cases.
2. Calculating poro...Conflict of Interest:
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