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 …

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 …

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 …

Calibration of a heterogeneous brain model using a subject-specific inverse finite element approach

JS Giudice, A Alshareef, T Wu, AK Knutsen… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Central to the investigation of the biomechanics of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the
assessment of injury risk from head impact are finite element (FE) models of the human …

Toward subject-specific evaluation: methods of evaluating finite element brain models using experimental high-rate rotational brain motion

A Alshareef, T Wu, JS Giudice, MB Panzer - Biomechanics and Modeling …, 2021 - Springer
Computational models of the brain have become the gold standard in biomechanics to
understand, predict, and mitigate traumatic brain injuries. Many models have been created …

Characterization of material properties and deformation in the ANGUS phantom during mild head impacts using MRI

AK Knutsen, S Vidhate, G McIlvain, J Luster… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health concern affecting both military and civilian
populations. Despite notable advances in TBI research in recent years, there remains a …

Displacement error propagation from embedded markers to brain strain

W Zhao, Z Wu, S Ji - Journal of Biomechanical …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Head injury model validation has evolved from against pressure to relative brain–skull
displacement, and more recently, against marker-based strain. However, there are concerns …

Integrating material properties from magnetic resonance elastography into subject-specific computational models for the human brain

A Alshareef, AK Knutsen, CL Johnson, A Carass… - Brain multiphysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in brain imaging and computational methods have facilitated the creation of
subject-specific computational brain models that aid researchers in investigating brain …

Lung respiratory motion estimation based on fast Kalman filtering and 4D CT image registration

P Xue, Y Fu, H Ji, W Cui, E Dong - IEEE Journal of Biomedical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Respiratory motion estimation is an important part in image-guided radiation therapy and
clinical diagnosis. However, most of the respiratory motion estimation methods rely on …

Brain Material Properties and Integration of Arachnoid Complex for Biofidelic Impact Response for Human Head Finite Element Model

A Rycman, M Bustamante, DS Cronin - Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Finite element head models offer great potential to study brain-related injuries; however, at
present may be limited by geometric and material property simplifications required for …