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Development, Validation and Parametric study of a 3-Year-Old Child Head Finite Element Model

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Traumatic brain injury caused by drop and traffic accidents is an important reason for children’s death and disability. Recently, the computer finite element (FE) head model has been developed to investigate brain injury mechanism and biomechanical responses. Based on CT data of a healthy 3-year-old child head, the FE head model with detailed anatomical structure was developed. The deep brain structures such as white matter, gray matter, cerebral ventricle, hippocampus, were firstly created in this FE model. The FE model was validated by comparing the simulation results with that of cadaver experiments based on reconstructing the child and adult cadaver experiments. In addition, the effects of skull stiffness on the child head dynamic responses were further investigated. All the simulation results confirmed the good biofidelity of the FE model.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81201015, 81471274 and 81371360).

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  1. College of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, 300222, China

    Shihai Cui, Yue Chen, Haiyan Li & ShiJie Ruan

  2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Integrated Design and On-line Monitoring for Light Industry & Food Machinery and Equipment, Tianjin, 300222, China

    Shihai Cui, Haiyan Li & ShiJie Ruan

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Cui, S., Chen, Y., Li, H. et al. Development, Validation and Parametric study of a 3-Year-Old Child Head Finite Element Model. 3D Res 6, 43 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13319-015-0075-2

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