DCL coating of textile blood vessels using PLD

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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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