Citation

Zhang J, Yoganandan NA, Pintar FA, Gennarelli TA, Shender BS. Biomed. Sci. Instrum. 2009; 45: 119-124.

Affiliation

Medical College of Wisconsin and VA Medical Center,Milwaukee, WI.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Instrument Society of America)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19369750

Abstract

An idealized finite element human head model was constructed to study biomechanical responses in the brain due to blast overpressure loading from a blast of 10 kg TNT at 1 meter. Brain strain in the coup and contrecoup regions were 4-7x higher than the central region, and high brain strain (15%) large deformation (4 mm) occurred in the brainstem region, indicating a higher probability of injury in the peripheral brain and brainstem regions due to blast overpressure loading.

Language: en