Use of brain biomechanical models for monitoring impact exposure in contact sports

S Ji, M Ghajari, H Mao, RH Kraft… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Head acceleration measurement sensors are now widely deployed in the field to monitor
head kinematic exposure in contact sports. The wealth of impact kinematics data provides …

Finite element methods in human head impact simulations: a review

A Madhukar, M Ostoja-Starzewski - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2019 - Springer
Head impacts leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI) present a major health risk today,
projected to become the third leading cause of death by 2020. While finite element (FE) …

An anatomically detailed and personalizable head injury model: Significance of brain and white matter tract morphological variability on strain

X Li, Z Zhou, S Kleiven - Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 2021 - Springer
Finite element head (FE) models are important numerical tools to study head injuries and
develop protection systems. The generation of anatomically accurate and subject-specific …

Ranking and rating bicycle helmet safety performance in oblique impacts using eight different brain injury models

M Fahlstedt, F Abayazid, MB Panzer, A Trotta… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Bicycle helmets are shown to offer protection against head injuries. Rating methods and test
standards are used to evaluate different helmet designs and safety performance. Both strain …

In vivo estimates of axonal stretch and 3D brain deformation during mild head impact

AK Knutsen, AD Gomez, M Gangolli, WT Wang… - Brain multiphysics, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid deformation of brain tissue in response to head impact can lead to traumatic brain
injury. In vivo measurements of brain deformation during non-injurious head impacts are …

MR Imaging of Human Brain Mechanics In Vivo: New Measurements to Facilitate the Development of Computational Models of Brain Injury

PV Bayly, A Alshareef, AK Knutsen, K Upadhyay… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Computational models of the brain and its biomechanical response to skull accelerations
are important tools for understanding and predicting traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) …

Displacement-and strain-based discrimination of head injury models across a wide range of blunt conditions

W Zhao, S Ji - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2020 - Springer
Successful validation of a head injury model is critical to ensure its biofidelity. However,
there is an ongoing debate on what experimental data are suitable for model validation …

Fluid–structure interaction simulation of the brain–skull interface for acute subdural haematoma prediction

Z Zhou, X Li, S Kleiven - Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 2019 - Springer
Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of disability and mortality. Finite element-based
head models are promising tools for enhanced head injury prediction, mitigation and …

White matter anisotropy for impact simulation and response sampling in traumatic brain injury

W Zhao, S Ji - Journal of neurotrauma, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Advanced neuroimaging provides new opportunities to enhance head injury models,
including the incorporation of white matter (WM) structural anisotropy. Information from high …

Anisotropic finite element models for brain injury prediction: the sensitivity of axonal strain to white matter tract inter-subject variability

C Giordano, S Zappalà, S Kleiven - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2017 - Springer
Computational models incorporating anisotropic features of brain tissue have become a
valuable tool for studying the occurrence of traumatic brain injury. The tissue deformation in …