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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2020
Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yuta Doi, Tokyo, JP;
OTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a stent that has guaranteed high bonding strength between a strut and an opaque member and has high reliability to prevent the opaque member from coming off in a luminal structure; and a method for inspecting such a stent. A stent according to the invention includes: a leg portion provided with protrusions; and an opaque member that is provided along the longitudinal direction of the protrusions to cover the protrusions, the opaque member being highly opaque to radiation, the opaque member having: sparse areas with a spacing ratio higher than a predetermined spacing ratio; and a dense area with a spacing ratio lower than the predetermined spacing ratio, the opaque member being fixed on or to the protrusions with adhesives in the sparse areas.