Parametric comparisons of intracranial mechanical responses from three validated finite element models of the human head

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-24

  Ji, Songbai ^a,b   Ghadyani, Hamidreza ^a   Bolander, Richard P ^c   Beckwith, Jonathan G ^c   Ford, James C ^b   McAllister, Thomas W ^b   Flashman, Laura A ^b   Paulsen, Keith D ^a   Ernstrom, Karin ^d   Jain, Sonia ^d   Raman, Rema ^d,e   Zhang, Liying ^f   Greenwald, Richard M ^a,c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SIMBEX   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element model; Head impact exposure; Injury threshold; Sports related concussion; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; HEAD IMPACT; INJURY THRESHOLD; ROTATIONAL ACCELERATION; SPORTS-RELATED CONCUSSION; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; THE REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

ACCELERATION; BRAIN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SPORTS; STRAIN RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DARTHMOUTH SCALED AND NORMALIZED MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; KINEMATICS; PARAMETERS; SIMULATED INJURY MODEL; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY INJURY MODEL;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896704070     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-013-0907-2     Document Type: Article

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