Citation

Margulies SS, Thibault LE, Gennarelli TA. Proc. IRCOBI 1985; 13: 223-234.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury)

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Abstract

The use of some simple physical models of the skull-brain structure as an experimental tool for measurement of the deformations experienced by the surrogate brain under internal loading conditions, is discussed. Determining this transfer function between the gross description of the head loading conditions and the response of the structure is an important step in the direction of elucidating the various mechanisms of head injury. A subhuman primate model has enabled a study to be made of the pathophysiology and morphology of injury, and has also provided useful biomechanical data relating the kinematics to the specific injury. However, in order to improve upon existing head injury criteria, scaling these subhuman primate data to man is essential. The physical experiments discussed here should prove helpful.