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Hanna M, Ali A, Bhatambarekar P, Modi K, Lee C, Morrison B, Klienberger M, Pfister BJ. Anatomical Features and Material Properties of Human Surrogate Head Models Affect Spatial and Temporal Brain Motion under Blunt Impact. Bioengineering (Basel) 2024; 11:650. [PMID: 39061732 PMCID: PMC11273380 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering11070650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2024] [Revised: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a biomechanical problem where the initiating event is dynamic loading (blunt, inertial, blast) to the head. To understand the relationship between the mechanical parameters of the injury and the deformation patterns in the brain, we have previously developed a surrogate head (SH) model capable of measuring spatial and temporal deformation in a surrogate brain under blunt impact. The objective of this work was to examine how material properties and anatomical features affect the motion of the brain and the development of injurious deformations. The SH head model was modified to study six variables independently under blunt impact: surrogate brain stiffness, surrogate skull stiffness, inclusion of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), head/skull size, inclusion of vasculature, and neck stiffness. Each experimental SH was either crown or frontally impacted at 1.3 m/s (3 mph) using a drop tower system. Surrogate brain material, the Hybrid III neck stiffness, and skull stiffness were measured and compared to published properties. Results show that the most significant variables affecting changes in brain deformation are skull stiffness, inclusion of CSF and surrogate brain stiffness. Interestingly, neck stiffness and SH size significantly affected the strain rate only suggesting these parameters are less important in blunt trauma. While the inclusion of vasculature locally created strain concentrations at the interface of the artery and brain, overall deformation was reduced.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael Hanna
- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA; (M.H.); (A.A.); (P.B.); (K.M.)
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA; (M.H.); (A.A.); (P.B.); (K.M.)
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA; (M.H.); (A.A.); (P.B.); (K.M.)
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA; (M.H.); (A.A.); (P.B.); (K.M.)
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- Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; (C.L.)
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- Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; (C.L.)
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- The Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, MD 21005, USA;
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA; (M.H.); (A.A.); (P.B.); (K.M.)
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Boiczyk GM, Pearson N, Kote VB, Sundaramurthy A, Subramaniam DR, Rubio JE, Unnikrishnan G, Reifman J, Monson KL. Rate- and Region-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Göttingen Minipig Brain Tissue in Simple Shear and Unconfined Compression. J Biomech Eng 2023; 145:1154461. [PMID: 36524865 DOI: 10.1115/1.4056480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly from explosive blasts, is a major cause of casualties in modern military conflicts. Computational models are an important tool in understanding the underlying biomechanics of TBI but are highly dependent on the mechanical properties of soft tissue to produce accurate results. Reported material properties of brain tissue can vary by several orders of magnitude between studies, and no published set of material parameters exists for porcine brain tissue at strain rates relevant to blast. In this work, brain tissue from the brainstem, cerebellum, and cerebrum of freshly euthanized adolescent male Göttingen minipigs was tested in simple shear and unconfined compression at strain rates ranging from quasi-static (QS) to 300 s-1. Brain tissue showed significant strain rate stiffening in both shear and compression. Minimal differences were seen between different regions of the brain. Both hyperelastic and hyper-viscoelastic constitutive models were fit to experimental stress, considering data from either a single loading mode (unidirectional) or two loading modes together (bidirectional). The unidirectional hyper-viscoelastic models with an Ogden hyperelastic representation and a one-term Prony series best captured the response of brain tissue in all regions and rates. The bidirectional models were generally able to capture the response of the tissue in high-rate shear and all compression modes, but not the QS shear. Our constitutive models describe the first set of material parameters for porcine brain tissue relevant to loading modes and rates seen in blast injury.
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- Gregory M Boiczyk
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Utah, 36 S. Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Utah, 1495 E 100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology, High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, 2405 Whittier Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD 21702; The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology, High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, 2405 Whittier Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD 21702; The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology, High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, 2405 Whittier Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD 21702; The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology, High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, 2405 Whittier Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD 21702; The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology, High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, 2405 Whittier Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD 21702; The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology, High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, 2405 Whittier Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD 21702
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Utah, 1495 E 100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Utah, 36 S. Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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Rubio JE, Subramaniam DR, Unnikrishnan G, Sajja VSSS, Van Albert S, Rossetti F, Frock A, Nguyen G, Sundaramurthy A, Long JB, Reifman J. A biomechanical-based approach to scale blast-induced molecular changes in the brain. Sci Rep 2022; 12:14605. [PMID: 36028539 PMCID: PMC9418170 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17967-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Animal studies provide valuable insights on how the interaction of blast waves with the head may injure the brain. However, there is no acceptable methodology to scale the findings from animals to humans. Here, we propose an experimental/computational approach to project observed blast-induced molecular changes in the rat brain to the human brain. Using a shock tube, we exposed rats to a range of blast overpressures (BOPs) and used a high-fidelity computational model of a rat head to correlate predicted biomechanical responses with measured changes in glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in rat brain tissues. Our analyses revealed correlates between model-predicted strain rate and measured GFAP changes in three brain regions. Using these correlates and a high-fidelity computational model of a human head, we determined the equivalent BOPs in rats and in humans that induced similar strain rates across the two species. We used the equivalent BOPs to project the measured GFAP changes in the rat brain to the human. Our results suggest that, relative to the rat, the human requires an exposure to a blast wave of a higher magnitude to elicit similar brain-tissue responses. Our proposed methodology could assist in the development of safety guidelines for blast exposure.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jose E Rubio
- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, ATTN: FCMR-TT, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5012, USA.,The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720-A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, ATTN: FCMR-TT, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5012, USA.,The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720-A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, ATTN: FCMR-TT, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5012, USA.,The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720-A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Blast Induced Neurotrauma Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
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- Blast Induced Neurotrauma Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
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- Blast Induced Neurotrauma Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, ATTN: FCMR-TT, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5012, USA.,The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720-A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, ATTN: FCMR-TT, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5012, USA.,The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720-A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, ATTN: FCMR-TT, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5012, USA.,The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., 6720-A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Blast Induced Neurotrauma Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
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- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, ATTN: FCMR-TT, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5012, USA.
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