Medical devices configured from deep drawn nickel-titanium alloys and nickel-titanium clad alloys and method of making the same

摘要

Nickel-titanium alloys that have been deep drawn in a cold working process have linear pseudoelastic behavior without a phase transformation or onset of stress-induced martensite. A medical device made from a structural element which has been deep drawn and subsequently formed into a desired medical device geometry will experience such linear pseudoelastic behavior.