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Importance of partitioning membranes of the brain and the influence of the neck in head injury modelling

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A head injury model consisting of the skull, the CSF, the brain and its partitioning membranes and the neck region is simulated by considering its near actual geometry. Three-dimensional finite-element analysis is carried out to investigate the influence of the partitioning membranes of the brain and the neck in head injury analysis through free-vibration analysis and transient analysis. In free-vibration analysis, the first five modal frequencies are calculated, and in transient analysis intracranial pressure and maximum shear stress in the brain are determined for a given occipital impact load.

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  1. Biomedical Engineering Division, Indian Institute of Technology, 600 036, Madras, India

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Kumaresan, S., Radhakrishnan, S. Importance of partitioning membranes of the brain and the influence of the neck in head injury modelling. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 34, 27–32 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02637019

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