Translational models of mild traumatic brain injury tissue biomechanics

X Zhan, A Oeur, Y Liu, MM Zeineh, GA Grant… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global health concern. Mild TBI (mTBI) which accounts for
the majority of TBI cases, is hard to detect since often the imaging is normal but can still …

Consensus head acceleration measurement practices (CHAMP): laboratory validation of wearable head kinematic devices

L Gabler, D Patton, M Begonia, R Daniel… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Wearable devices are increasingly used to measure real-world head impacts and study
brain injury mechanisms. These devices must undergo validation testing to ensure they …

Finite element evaluation of an American football helmet featuring liquid shock absorbers for protecting against concussive and subconcussive head impacts

NJ Cecchi, H Vahid Alizadeh, Y Liu… - … in bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Concern has grown over the potential long-term effects of repeated head
impacts and concussions in American football. Recent advances in impact engineering have …

A sensor-enabled cloud-based computing platform for computational brain biomechanics

RR Menghani, A Das, RH Kraft - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objectives Driven by the risk of repetitive head trauma, sensors
have been integrated into mouthguards to measure head impacts in contact sports and …

Adaptive machine learning head model across different head impact types using unsupervised domain adaptation and generative adversarial networks

X Zhan, J Sun, Y Liu, NJ Cecchi, E Le Flao… - IEEE Sensors …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning head models (MLHMs) are developed to estimate brain deformation from
sensor-based kinematics for early detection of traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the …

Differences between two maximal principal strain rate calculation schemes in traumatic brain analysis with in-vivo and in-silico datasets

X Zhan, Z Zhou, Y Liu, NJ Cecchi… - Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Brain deformation caused by a head impact leads to traumatic brain injury (TBI). The
maximum principal strain (MPS) was used to measure the extent of brain deformation and …

How Well Do Popular Bicycle Helmets Protect from Different Types of Head Injury?

CE Baker, X Yu, B Lovell, R Tan, S Patel… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2024 - Springer
Bicycle helmets are designed to protect against skull fractures and associated focal brain
injuries, driven by helmet standards. Another type of head injury seen in injured cyclists is …

Estimating brain injury risk from shipborne underwater blasts using a high-fidelity finite element head model

S Nakarmi, Y Wang, AL Fawzi, C Franck… - Military …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Assessing the survivability of, and potential injury to, a ship's crew from
underwater blast is crucial to understanding the operating capability of a military vessel …

Holistic pedestrian safety assessment for average males and females

C Leo, A Fredriksson, E Grumert, A Linder… - Frontiers in public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objective An integrated assessment framework that enables holistic safety evaluations
addressing vulnerable road users (VRU) is introduced and applied in the current study. The …

Concussion prone scenarios: a multi-dimensional exploration in impact directions, brain morphology, and network architectures using computational models

T Wu, JA Rifkin, AC Rayfield, ED Anderson… - Annals of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
While individual susceptibility to traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been speculated, past work
does not provide an analysis considering how physical features of an individual's brain (eg …