- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
- Bone health and osteoporosis research
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Child Abuse and Related Trauma
- Elasticity and Material Modeling
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
University of Manitoba
2023
World Health Organization
2013
University of Pennsylvania
1998-2002
The purpose of this paper is to present results from methodologies used in our laboratory that are targeted toward identifying specific brain injury thresholds. Results studying one form injury, diffuse axonal presented report. Physical models, or surrogates, the skull–brain complex estimate relationship between inertial loading and deformation. A porcine model developed with information these physical models earlier vitro tissue modeling studies, correlate histologic radiologic evidence...
Immediate and prolonged coma following brain trauma has been shown to result from diffuse axonal injury (DAI). However, the relationship between distribution of damage posttraumatic not examined. In present study, authors examine that relationship.To explore potential anatomical origins coma, used a model inertial in pig. Anesthetized miniature swine were subjected nonimpact-induced head rotational acceleration along either coronal or axial plane (six pigs each group). was consistently...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) finite element (FE) analyses have evolved from crude geometric representations of the skull and system into sophisticated models which take account distinct anatomical features. Two FE modeling approaches to for relative motion that occurs between cerebral cortex during TBI. The first approach assumes can be estimated by representing cerebrospinal fluid inside subarachnoid space as a low shear modulus, virtually incompressible solid. second approximated defining...
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A new method for clinical breast biopsy is presented, based on a deformable finite element model of the breast. The geometry constructed from MR data, and its mechanical properties are nonlinear material model. This allows imaging without compression before procedure, then compressing using to predict tumor's position.
Validating a traumatic brain injury finite element model is often limited by lack of extensive animal data that may be used to examine the conditions under which accurate. Given most published reports specify only general descriptions injury, this study examined potential evaluation strategies and assessed ability simulate in an model. The results showed 1) from simplified patterns observed set experiments, 2) parameter (Z parameter), quantified comparison process between computational data,...