Xianghao Zhan, Yiheng Li, Yuzhe Liu, August G Domel, Hossein Vahid Alizadeh, Zhou Zhou, Nicholas J Cecchi, Samuel J Raymond, Stephen Tiernan, Jesse Ruan, Saeed Barbat, Olivier Gevaert, Michael M Zeineh, Gerald A Grant, David B Camarillo
Brain tissue deformation resulting from head impacts is primarily caused by rotation and can lead to traumatic brain injury. To quantify brain injury risk based on measurements of kinematics on the head, finite element (FE) models and various brain injury criteria based on different factors of these kinematics have been developed, but the contribution of different kinematic factors has not been comprehensively analyzed across different types of head impacts in a data-driven manner. To better design brain injury criteria, the predictive power of rotational kinematics factors, which are different in (1) the derivative order (angular velocity, angular acceleration, angular jerk), (2) the direction and (3) the power (e...
July 9, 2021: Annals of Biomedical Engineering