# How to generate Vascular stent?

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-generate-vascular-stent/8032
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-generate-vascular-stent/8032 "2022-03-11T09:01:02Z")
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### Author: ![junqiangchen](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/junqiangchen/32/4087_2.png) [@junqiangchen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/junqiangchen)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-generate-vascular-stent/8032/1 "2022-03-11T09:01:02Z")

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hi,i want generate Virtual Vascular Stent in VTK，i can generate simple Vascular Stent,like this  
 ![206e38545eb52ee9de765e60667a78afaef2fb37_2_678x499](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f7358ab69bd3a7a6938117a02e2f60bd7428bcca.png)  
and i want make simple Vascular Stent more truely，like this result：  
 ![258fd5197d0a7a464a49edebb8e13c13d2767e2b_2_571x500](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/889f8bbf0717d46f51f5c1a96e8a1829cfdb3f02.jpeg)  
can anyone know how to do it?  
thank you!!

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### Author: ![lassoan](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/lassoan/32/50_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-generate-vascular-stent/8032/2 "2022-03-12T05:45:30Z")

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There are many ways to do it - I’ve posted the answer on the Slicer Forum where you originally asked this question:

> **[How to generate Vascular stent?](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-generate-vascular-stent/22430/2)**
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> There are many options for this, depending on what you want to do. You can scan a real stent and warp it to the vessel’s geometry using the transform computed by Curved Planar Reformat module. You can paint the stent pattern in Gimp or Inkscape,...