Hemorrhagic stroke, caused by the rupture of intracranial aneurysms, is a serious disorder witha high mortality and morbidity. The current standard treatments for intracranial aneurysms includetraditional craniotomy and endovascular coiling; however, there are some limitations associatedwith these two treatments. In this paper, we propose a novel NiTi “spherical stent” concept, the fi rstof its kind in the world. Our proposed spherical stent is able to provide more uniform radial supportto an intracranial aneurysm, thereby reducing the risk of rupture. In addition, it can be directlydeployed inside the aneurysm in a single step, which signifi cantly shortens the surgery time. Finiteelement models were developed to predict the behavior of the spherical stent during manufacturingand clinical deployment. A pulsed fi ber laser, integrated with a precision X–Y motor stage, wasused to make the fi rst prototype of the spherical stent to demonstrate our novel concept.