Vidas, Arret & Steinkraus
Shrinking balloon catheter having nonlinear compliance curve
 A balloon catheter, having a non-linear compliance curve, made up of a single layered balloon, that was molded from a polymeric material to have a specific nominal diameter and then shrunk to a diameter that is less than the specific nominal diameter. When the shrunk balloon is expanded it has the characteristics of a compliant balloon until its diameter has been expanded to its original specific nominal diameter after which it follows the non compliant compliance curve that it would have had it not been shrunk. 
Scimed Lifesystems Inc.
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Y10S A61M A61M B29L B29L
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The Thomas T. Lixiao
Tran Wang