PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cem Bilgin
AU  - Jared Hutar
AU  - Jiahui Li
AU  - Oscar Castaño
AU  - Marc Ribo
AU  - David F Kallmes
TI  - Catheter design primer for neurointerventionalists
AID  - 10.1136/jnis-2022-019567
DP  - 2022 Dec 07
TA  - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
PG  - jnis-2022-019567
4099  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/07/jnis-2022-019567.short
4100  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/07/jnis-2022-019567.full
AB  - Neurovascular catheter technology has rapidly evolved over the past decade. While performance characteristics are well known to the practitioner, the design features of these new-generation catheters and their implications on performance metrics remain a mystery to most clinicians due to the limited number of available resources. This knowledge gap hampers informed device choices and also limits collaboration between clinicians and engineers. To aid fellow neurointerventionalists, in this primer we have summarized the basic concepts of catheter design and construction.