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- Title
Region-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Human Brain Tissue Under Large Deformations Using Inverse Finite Element Modeling.
- Authors
Basilio, Andrew V.; Zeng, Delin; Pichay, Leanne A.; Maas, Steve A.; Sundaresh, Sowmya N.; Finan, John D.; Elkin, Benjamin S.; McKhann, Guy M.; Ateshian, Gerard A.; Morrison III, Barclay
- Abstract
This study aims to facilitate intracranial simulation of traumatic events by determining the mechanical properties of different anatomical structures of the brain. Our experimental indentation paradigm used fresh, post-operative human tissue, which is highly advantageous in determining mechanical properties without being affected by postmortem time. This study employed an inverse finite element approach coupled with experimental indentation data to characterize mechanical properties of the human hippocampus (CA1, CA3, dentate gyrus), cortex white matter, and cortex grey matter. We determined that an uncoupled viscoelastic Ogden constitutive formulation was most appropriate to represent the mechanical behavior of these different regions of brain. Anatomical regions were significantly different in their mechanical properties. The cortex white matter was stiffer than cortex grey matter, and the CA1 and dentate gyrus were both stiffer than cortex grey matter. Although no sex dependency was observed, there were trends indicating that male brain regions were generally stiffer than corresponding female regions. In addition, there were no statistically significant age dependent differences. This study provides a structure-specific description of fresh human brain tissue mechanical properties, which will be an important step toward explicitly modeling the heterogeneity of brain tissue deformation during TBI through finite element modeling.
- Subjects
FINITE element method; TISSUE mechanics; DENTATE gyrus; FUSIFORM gyrus; DEFORMATIONS (Mechanics); TISSUES
- Publication
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2024, Vol 52, Issue 3, p600
- ISSN
0090-6964
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10439-023-03407-7