Brain tissue is not only one of the most important but also the most complex and compliant
tissue in the human body. While long underestimated, increasing evidence confirms that …

The human brain is the continuous subject of extensive investigation aimed at
understanding its behavior and function. Despite a clear evidence that mechanical factors …

Since its coming of age in the mid 1960s, continuum biomechanics has contributed much to
our understanding of human health as well as to disease, injury, and their treatment …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when local mechanical load exceeds certain tolerance
levels for brain tissue. Extensive research has been done previously for brain matter …

Slow, large deformations of human brain tissue—accompanying cranial vault deformation
induced by positional plagiocephaly, occurring during hydrocephalus, and in the …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is increasingly used for preoperative
counseling and planning, and intraoperative guidance for tumor resection in the eloquent …

The ability to successfully interface the brain to external electrical systems is important both
for fundamental understanding of our nervous system and for the development of …

While mechanical properties of the brain have been investigated thoroughly, the mechanical
properties of human brain tumors rarely have been directly quantified due to the …

The Ogden model is often considered as a standard model in the literature for application to
the deformation of brain tissue. Here, we show that, in some of those applications, the use of …

Brain tissue is considered to be biphasic, with approximately 80% liquid and 20% solid
matrix, thus exhibiting viscoelasticity due to rearrangement of the solid matrix and …