An axonal strain injury criterion for traumatic brain injury
- 8 April 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
- Vol. 11 (1-2), 245-260
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-011-0307-1
Abstract
Computational models are often used as tools to study traumatic brain injury. The fidelity of such models depends on the incorporation of an appropriate level of structural detail, the accurate representation of the material behavior, and the use of an appropriate measure of injury. In this study, an axonal strain injury criterion is used to estimate the probability of diffuse axonal injury (DAI), which accounts for a large percentage of deaths due to brain trauma and is characterized by damage to neural axons in the deep white matter regions of the brain. We present an analytical and computational model that treats the white matter as an anisotropic, hyperelastic material. Diffusion tensor imaging is used to incorporate the structural orientation of the neural axons into the model. It is shown that the degree of injury that is predicted in a computational model of DAI is highly dependent on the incorporation of the axonal orientation information and the inclusion of anisotropy into the constitutive model for white matter.Keywords
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