that of fig3 with 3 struts when it comes to radiopaque markers it is important to arrange the markers so that they are distributed around the circumference of the stent in the radially compact delivery disposition of the stent as evenly as is practicable in fig3 the arrangement is even fig6 shows one possible arrangement of tantalum markers 60 62 64 66 which is not far from an even distribution in the compact form of the stent although further from evenly distributed when the stent is expanded in the fig9 design it is clear that each end of the stent offers only three recesses for installation of a set of three markers evenly distributed around the circumference of the stent the markers can be of different shapes in order to meet these design objectives as is illustrated in fig6 as one example one thing that is striking about the present invention is how it delivers a simple pattern of linear slits in the compact configuration that exhibits in each stenting loop a sequence of stepwise displacements up and down the axis of the stent in the positions of the free cusps yet in the expanded disposition of the stent the axial steps are gone instead the bridges are skewed and the free cusps are circumferentially displaced relative to the free cusps of the adjacent stenting loop that were facing them head to head in the compact disposition of significance is that in the expanded disposition when the stent must exert radially outward stenting force on the bodily tissue that forms the wall of the stented bodily lumen the zig zag struts of each stenting rings march.