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Images of a tissue engineered vascular graft. Porous PTFE material is covered with a layer of smooth muscle cells. First image taken from luminal side, second is from abluminal side.

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Image of a stentgraft implanted for 1 week. Ridges are “puckering” of the graft material. Bright subsurface reflections are from the metal in the graft. Some thrombii can be seen attached to the graft material.

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Image of a vascular stent implanted for 1 week. Wires in the stent are highly reflective and shadow everything below them.

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