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 modeling of traumatic brain injury: Areas of future interest

E Griffiths, S Budday - Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of the finite element (FE) method to simulate traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been
an area under development and research for many years. The aim is to accurately …

Cerebral vascular strains in dynamic head impact using an upgraded model with brain material property heterogeneity

W Zhao, S Ji - Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cerebral vascular injury (CVI) is a frequent consequence of traumatic brain injury but has
often been neglected. Substantial experimental work exists on vascular material properties …

Data-driven uncertainty quantification in computational human head models

K Upadhyay, DG Giovanis, A Alshareef… - Computer methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Computational models of the human head are promising tools for estimating the impact-
induced response of the brain, and thus play an important role in the prediction of traumatic …

The White Matter Fiber Tract Deforms Most in the Perpendicular Direction During In Vivo Volunteer Impacts

Z Zhou, C Olsson, TC Gasser, X Li… - Journal of …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
White matter (WM) tract-related strains are increasingly used to quantify brain mechanical
responses, but their dynamics in live human brains during in vivo impact conditions remain …

Toward subject-specific evaluation: methods of evaluating finite element brain models using experimental high-rate rotational brain motion

A Alshareef, T Wu, JS Giudice, MB Panzer - Biomechanics and Modeling …, 2021 - Springer
Computational models of the brain have become the gold standard in biomechanics to
understand, predict, and mitigate traumatic brain injuries. Many models have been created …

Cranial Bone Changes Induced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Neglected Player in Concussion Outcomes?

BD Semple, O Panagiotopoulou - Neurotrauma reports, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), particularly when repetitive in nature, are increasingly
recognized to have a range of significant negative implications for brain health. Much of the …

Biomechanical response of head surrogate with and without the helmet

A Singh, D Kumar, S Ganpule - Journal of …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Measurements of brain deformations under injurious loading scenarios are actively sought.
In this work, we report experimentally measured head kinematics and corresponding …

Characterization of material properties and deformation in the ANGUS phantom during mild head impacts using MRI

AK Knutsen, S Vidhate, G McIlvain, J Luster… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health concern affecting both military and civilian
populations. Despite notable advances in TBI research in recent years, there remains a …

Magnetic Resonance Elastography-Based Technique to Assess the Biomechanics of the Skull-Brain Interface: Repeatability and Age-Sex Characteristics

X Shan, MC Murphy, Y Sui, E Camerucci… - Journal of …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Increasing concerns have been raised about the long-term negative effects of
subconcussive repeated head impact (RHI). To elucidate RHI injury mechanisms, many …