Transient analysis of the biomechanics of the human head with a high-resolution 3D finite element model

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-64

  Hartmann, Ulrich ^a,b   Kruggel, Frithjof ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

FEM; Head biomcchanics; MRI

Indexed keywords

3D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; ANISOTROPIC MESHES; APPLIED FORCES; BRICK ELEMENTS; CADAVER TESTS; DATA SETS; FE CALCULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FEM; HEAD BIOMCCHANICS; HEAD IMPACT; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN HEAD; IMPACT SIMULATION; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MESH GENERATORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BIOMECHANICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0002160432     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255849908907978     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Holbourn, A. H. S. (1943). Mechanics of Head Injuries. Lancet, 2, 438-441.
2. Gurdjian, E. S., Lissner, H. R., Hodgson, V. R. and Patrick, L. M. (1966). Mechanisms of Head Injury. Clinical Neurosurgery. 12, 122-128.
3. Gennarelli, T. A., Thibault, L., Tomei, G., Wiser, R., Graham, D. and Adams, J. (1987). Directional Dependence of Axonal Brain Injury due to Centroidal and Non-centroidal Acceleration. Proceedings of 31st Slapp Car Crash Conference, (available via {http://www.sae.org}), 49-54.
4. Anzelius, A, (1943). The Effect of an Impact on a Spherical Liquid Mass. Ada Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica, 48, 153-159.
5. Stalnaker, R. L., Fogle, J. L. and McElhaney, J. H. (1971). Driving Point Impedance Characteristics of the Head. Journal of Biomechanics, 4, 127-129.
6. Thibault, L. E., Margulies, S. S. and Gennarelli, T. A. (1987). The Temporal and Spatial Deformation Response of a Brain Model in Inertial Loading. Proceedings of the 31st Stapp Car Crash Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org), 287-293.
7. Chan, H. S. (1974). Mathematical Model for Closed Head Impact. Proceedings of the 18th Stapp Car Crash Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org), 557-579.
8. Ward, C. C. and Thompson, R. B. (1975). The Development of a Detailed Finite Element Brain Model. Proceedings of the 19th Stapp Car Crush Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org), 641-674.
9. Khalil, T. B. and Viano, D. C. (1982). Critical Issues in Finite Element Modeling of Head Impact. Proceedings of the 26th Stapp Car Crash Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org), 87-103.
10. Sauren, A, A. H. J. and Claessens, M. H. A. (1993). Finite Element Modeling of Head Impact: The Second Decade. Proceedings of the International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, 241-254.
11. Wismans, J., Woltring, J. H. and Van Oorschot, E. (1986). Omni-Directional Human Head-Neck Response. Proceedings of the 30th Stapp Car Crash Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org). 319-338.
12. Ruan, J. S., Khalil, T. and King, A. (1991). Human Head Dynamic Response to Side Impact by Finite Element Modeling. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 113, 276-283.
13. Chu, C. S., Lin, M. S. and Lee, M. C. (1994). Finite Element Analysis of Cerebral Contusion. Journal of Biomechanics, 27, 187-194.
14. Zhou, C., Khalil, T. B. and King, A. I. (1995). A New Model Comparing Impact Responses of the Homogenous and Inhomogenous Human Brain. Proceedings of the 39th Stapp Car Crash Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org), 121-138.
15. Kuijpers, A. H. W. M., Claessens, M. H. A. and Sauren, A. A. H. J. (1995). The Influence of Different Boundary Conditions on the Response of the Head to Impact: A Twodimensional Finite Element Study. Journal of Neurotrauma, 12, 715-724.
16. Ueno, K., Melvin, J. W., Li, L. and Lighthall, J. W. (1995). Development of Tissue Level Brain Injury Criteria by Finite Element Analysis. Journal of Neurotrauma, 12, 695-706.
17. Nahum, A. L., Smith, R. and Ward, C, C. (1977). Intracranial Pressure Dynamics during Head Impact. Proceedings of the 21st Stapp Car Crash Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org). 339-367.
18. Turquier, F., Troseille, X., Lavaste, F., Tarriere, C., Domont, A., Kang, H. S. and Willinger, R. (1996). Validation Study of a 3D Finite Element Head Model Again. Proceedings of the 40th Stapp Car Crash Conference, (available via (http://www.sae.org), 112-134.
19. Hartmann, U. and Kruggel, F. (1997). Ein mechanischcs drcidimensionales Finite-Elemente-Modcll des mensehlichen Gehirns. Proceedings of 5th Freiburg Workshop tin Digital Image Processing in Medicine, 219-224.
20. Boender, E. (1994). Reliable Delaunay-based Mesh Generation and Mesh Improvement. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 10, 773-783.
21. Joe, B. (1991). Construction of Three-dimensional Delaunay Triangulations Using Local Transformations. Computer Aided Geometric Design, 8, 123-142.
22. Shepard, M. S. and Georges, M. K. (1991). A Combined Oetree/Delaunay Method for Fully Automatic 3D Mesh Generation. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 32, 709-749.
23. Mitchel, S. A. and Vavasis, S. A. (1992). Quality Mesh Generation in Three Dimensions. Proceedings of the ACM Computational Geometry Conference, 212-221.
24. Schmelzer, I. (1995). Covariant Geometry Description. Weierstrass-Institute Berlin Preprint No. 152, (ftp://ftp. wias-berlin.de/pub/ibg/doc/ibg.html).
25. Bünsch, E. (1993). Adaptive Finite-Element Techniques for Navier-Stokes Equations and other Transient Problems. In Adaptive Finite and Boundary Elements. Computational Mechanics Publications Elsevier, Chap. 2.
26. Clarkson, K. L., Mchlhom, K. and Seidel, R. (1993). Four Results on Randomized Incremental Constructions. In Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 3, 185-212.
27. Gibbs, N. E., Poole, W. G. and Stockmeyer, P. K. (1976). An Algorithm for Reducing the Bandwidth and Profile of a Sparse Matrix. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis. 13, 236-249.
28. Cuthill, E. and McKee, J. (1969). Reducing the Bandwidth of Sparse Symmetric Matrices. Proceedings of the 24th National Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery, 157-172.
29. Ruan, J. S. and Prasad, P. (1995). Coupling of a Finite Element Human Head Model with a Lumped Parameter Hybrid III Dummy Model: Preliminary Results. Journal of Neurotrauma, 12, 725-733.
30. Press, W. H., Teukolsky, S. A., Vetterling, W. T. and Flannery, B. P. (1994). Numerical Recipes in C. Cambridge University Press. 32-102.
31. Galford, J. E. and McElhaney, J. H. (1970). A Viscoelastic Study of Scalp, Brain and Dura. Journal of Biomechanics, 3, 211-221.
32. Kumaresan, S. and Radhakrishnan, S. (1996). Importance of Partitioning Membranes of the Brain and the Influence of the Neck in Head Injury Modelling. Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, 34, 27-32.
33. Sellier, K. and Unterharnsehcidt, F. (1963). Mechanik und Pathomorphologie der Hirnschäden nach stumpfer Gewalteinwirkung auf den Schüdel. Beitr. Hefte zur Unfalkunde, 76, 1-140.
34. Kruggel, F. and Lohmann, G. (1996). BRIAN (Brain Image Analysis)-a Toolkit for the Multimodal Analysis of Brain Datasets, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer and Communication Systems for Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy, Elsevier, 323-328.
35. Willinger, R., Taleb, L. and Kopp, C-M. (1995). Modal and Temporal Analysis of Head Mathematical Models. Journal of Neurotrauma, 12, 743-754.
36. Hoffmeisler, B. K., Handley, S. M., Wickline, S. A. and Miller, J. G. (1996). Ultrasonic Determination of the Anisotropy of Young's Modulus of Fixed Tendon and Fixed Myocardium. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 100, 3933-3940.