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 …

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) …

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 …

Instantaneous whole-brain strain estimation in dynamic head impact

K Ghazi, S Wu, W Zhao, S Ji - Journal of neurotrauma, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Head injury models are notoriously time consuming and resource demanding in simulations,
which prevents routine application. Here, we extend a convolutional neural network (CNN) …

Embedded axonal fiber tracts improve finite element model predictions of traumatic brain injury

M Hajiaghamemar, T Wu, MB Panzer… - … and modeling in …, 2020 - Springer
With the growing rate of traumatic brain injury (TBI), there is an increasing interest in
validated tools to predict and prevent brain injuries. Finite element models (FEM) are …

Evaluation of tissue-level brain injury metrics using species-specific simulations

T Wu, M Hajiaghamemar, JS Giudice… - Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant public health burden, and the development of
advanced countermeasures to mitigate and prevent these injuries during automotive, sports …

Inverse identification of region-specific hyperelastic material parameters for human brain tissue

J Hinrichsen, N Reiter, L Bräuer, F Paulsen… - … and Modeling in …, 2023 - Springer
The identification of material parameters accurately describing the region-dependent
mechanical behavior of human brain tissue is crucial for computational models used to …

Biomechanics of the human brain during dynamic rotation of the head

A Alshareef, JS Giudice, J Forman, DF Shedd… - Journal of …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are a substantial societal burden. The development of better
technologies and systems to prevent and/or mitigate the severity of brain injury requires an …

A review of cyclist head injury, impact characteristics and the implications for helmet assessment methods

CE Baker, X Yu, S Patel, M Ghajari - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2023 - Springer
Head injuries are common for cyclists involved in collisions. Such collision scenarios result
in a range of injuries, with different head impact speeds, angles, locations, or surfaces. A …

Integrating human and nonhuman primate data to estimate human tolerances for traumatic brain injury

T Wu, F Sato, J Antona-Makoshi… - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) contributes to a significant portion of the injuries resulting from
motor vehicle crashes, falls, and sports collisions. The development of advanced …