Guide wire used for medical treatment

摘要

A guide wire for medical treatment has a flexible main wire and a coil spring in which the main wire is inserted. The coil spring has an untransmissive part and a transmissive part and is manufactured by welding together under a proper welding load a wire made of a material through which radiation cannot pass and a wire made of a material through which radiation can pass to form a base wire, which is coiled to form the coil spring. The guide wire can be smoothly curved and smoothly inserted or extracted into or from the blood vessel without injuring the blood vessel.