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Controlled Cortical Impact Model for Traumatic Brain Injury
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Multi-Directional Dynamic Model for Traumatic Brain Injury Detection.

Kaveh Laksari1,2, Michael Fanton3, Lyndia C Wu2,4

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Journal of Neurotrauma
|December 21, 2019
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A new brain injury metric, the Brain Angle Metric (BAM), rapidly estimates tissue strain during head impacts. This simplified model shows strong correlation with finite element analysis, aiding mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) risk assessment.

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  • Biomechanics
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  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) poses a significant global health challenge, necessitating accurate diagnosis and prediction methods.
  • Traditional approaches link head kinematics to TBI risk, while advanced finite element (FE) models offer detailed tissue deformation metrics but are computationally intensive.
  • There is a need for rapid, reliable methods to assess brain injury risk from head impact data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, computationally efficient brain injury metric for estimating peak brain strains during head impacts.
  • To validate the proposed metric against established injury metrics and FE model outputs.
  • To assess the metric's performance in classifying injury versus non-injury events.

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Keywords:
brain injuryconcussioninjury criterioninjury prediction

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  • Development of a simplified 3-degree-of-freedom lumped parameter brain model, calibrated using natural frequencies from FE simulations of human impact data.
  • Calculation of the Brain Angle Metric (BAM) based on the maximum angle predicted by the simplified brain model.
  • Comparison of BAM with existing kinematic injury metrics using a dataset of head kinematics from diagnosed injuries and non-injuries.

Main Results:

  • The simplified brain model demonstrated strong correlation with peak principal FE strain (R=0.82).
  • Coronal and axial brain model displacements correlated with peak fiber-oriented strain in the corpus callosum (R=0.77).
  • BAM performed comparably to established metrics like peak angular acceleration and translational acceleration in classifying injury events.

Conclusions:

  • The developed Brain Angle Metric (BAM) offers a rapid and effective method for approximating peak brain strain from head impact kinematics.
  • The simplified model shows promise for quickly assessing brain injury risk, particularly for mild to moderate head impacts.
  • Directional component analysis of kinematic data improved classification performance compared to magnitude-based metrics.