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 …

The mechanics of traumatic brain injury: a review of what we know and what we need to know for reducing its societal burden

DF Meaney, B Morrison… - Journal of …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant public health problem, on pace to become the
third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020. Moreover, emerging evidence linking …

Development of brain injury criteria (BrIC)

EG Takhounts, MJ Craig, K Moorhouse, J McFadden… - 2013 - sae.org
Rotational motion of the head as a mechanism for brain injury was proposed back in the
1940s. Since then a multitude of research studies by various institutions were conducted to …

Development of a finite element human head model partially validated with thirty five experimental cases

H Mao, L Zhang, B Jiang… - Journal of …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This study is aimed to develop a high quality, extensively validated finite element (FE)
human head model for enhanced head injury prediction and prevention. The geometry of …

Brain injury prediction: assessing the combined probability of concussion using linear and rotational head acceleration

S Rowson, SM Duma - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2013 - Springer
Recent research has suggested possible long term effects due to repetitive concussions,
highlighting the importance of develo** methods to accurately quantify concussion risk …

Rotational head kinematics in football impacts: an injury risk function for concussion

S Rowson, SM Duma, JG Beckwith, JJ Chu… - Annals of biomedical …, 2012 - Springer
Recent research has suggested a possible link between sports-related concussions and
neurodegenerative processes, highlighting the importance of develo** methods to …

Dynamic blood–brain barrier regulation in mild traumatic brain injury

E O'Keeffe, E Kelly, Y Liu, C Giordano… - Journal of …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Whereas the diagnosis of moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is readily visible
on current medical imaging paradigms (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] and computed …

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 …

Six degree-of-freedom measurements of human mild traumatic brain injury

F Hernandez, LC Wu, MC Yip, K Laksari… - Annals of biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
This preliminary study investigated whether direct measurement of head rotation improves
prediction of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Although many studies have implicated …

An instrumented mouthguard for measuring linear and angular head impact kinematics in American football

DB Camarillo, PB Shull, J Mattson, R Shultz… - Annals of biomedical …, 2013 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a novel instrumented mouthguard as a research
device for measuring head impact kinematics. To evaluate kinematic accuracy, laboratory …