1. Product Specifications

2. Headway17 Advanced Key Notes
New
Tapered PTFE liner incorporated (only from MV) - For more reliable inner lumen integrity - Combined superior shapeability and proximal push/pull linearity
Paint brushing distal tip with 1.7F rounded end - Combination of atraumaticity and stabilized coiling - Head knocking distal tip to allow coils to be deployed evenly - Preventing the distal tip from being caught by aneurysm edge - Going through stent struts smoothly
Barium sulfate - Providing “slight” radiopacity in distal 15cm
Pre-shaped tips available - Straight, 45 degree, and 90 degree (J shape is coming later)
New
New
1st segment is softer than 2nd. They seek space.
New

3. Pre-Shaped Tips Specification
Longer than Echelon, shorter than SL10 for each shape
(90º)
(45º)
4.5mm
5.5 mm
Pre-Shaped 45º
Pre-Shaped 90º
4mm
Slightly longer than Echelon-into the aneurysm
Slightly shorter than SL-10-better support
More than 90’
165º
Coming later
Pre-Shaped J

4. Proprietary Unique Construction
Combination of atraumaticity and stabilized coiling 1 2 3 4
2nd Seg to provide good support
Softer 2nd segment -
Softer 1st Seg
to paint brush

5. Distal Round Tip With 1.7F
New

6. Distal Tip Softness Test
Test method
2mm/s
For distal 30mm stiffness
Fixed span
30mm 30

7. Distal Tip Softness Test
Test result gf
cf.
Traxcess 14: 0.2 gf
Transend 14 EX: 0.4gf

8. Headway17 Advanced Construction
Thermo-plastic Layer
1.7F at the distal tip, 1.9F in the distal segment , 2.4F at proximal shaft
Configurating the outmost catheter layer and substrate of the hydrophilic polymer
Providing steam-shapeability
2.4F
1.9F
1.7F
Inner lumen: 0.017”
Coil Reinforcement
PTFE Liner
Push pull controll- no stretching.
Coil construction throughout the catheter shaft
Located between outer layer and inner liner
Providing kink resistance
Tapered design (thinner wall in the distal, thicker in the proximal)
Facilitating smooth insertion of devices into the inner lumen
Preventing the catheter from stretching (for better push/pull control)

9. Thermoplastic Elastomer for Shapeability
SL-10
Echelon10
Headway17
Prowler14
The same shaping mandrel was used to shape the catheters
Steam shaped in 30 sec and soaked into saline at room temperature
Headway17 keeps almost same shape as the shape of the mandrel.
No difference in shaping between Regular and Extra support.

10. Lubricity Test Test method
Microcatheter
pulled up
37℃ water
The microcatheter is sandwiched by the measuring tool
The microcatheter is sandwiched by the measuring tool in the water at 37 degrees of Celsius. The microcatheter is pulled only upward and measuring tool releases the microcatheter at certain point. Then the microcatheter moves back to the same starting point. This cycle is repeated in 100 times, recording friction between the surface of the microcatheter and the tool.

11. Lubricity Test Test result
Test stopped. Force higher than load cell capacity.

12. Short & Low Profile of the Distal Tip
Headway17
SL10
Echelon10
Prowler LP-ES
Echelon14
Excel14
×200
The short and low profile of the distal tip with special manufacturing process
For better access through stent struts
For more atraumaticity (for both ruptured, non-ruptured aneurysm)
To reduce the gap between a guidewire and the distal tip

13. (1.5mm from the distal tip)
Catheter Dimensions
Product Name ID
Distal Tip
Length
Distal Tip OD
Distal Maker OD
(1.5mm from the distal tip)
Proximal Marker OD
Proximal Shaft OD
Headway17
0.0170”
0.6mm
1.72F
1.88F
1.96F
2.33F
SL10
0.0162”
0.7mm
1.71F
1.92F
2.10F
2.30F
Excel14
0.0166”
1.95F
1.97F
2.05F
2.43F
Prowler 14
0.0165”
0.5mm
1.94F
1.93F
1.87F
2.32F
Prowler LPES
2.27F
Echelon10
0.0169”
0.9mm
1.98F
2.02F
2.13F
Echelon14
0.8mm
2.00F
2.08F
2.19F
On the Label ID
Distal OD
Proximal OD
0.0170”
1.9F
2.4F
0.0165”
1.7F
2.3F
2.1F
Distal Tip Length: length from very end of the distal tip to distal end of the distal marker
Distal Tip OD: outer diameter of the distal tip just before very end of the “rounded tip”
Proximal Shaft OD: outer diameter of the proximal shaft