Characterization of material properties and deformation in the ANGUS phantom during mild head impacts using MRI.

ABSTRACT: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health concern affecting both military and civilian populations. Despite notable advances in TBI research in recent years, there remains a significant gap in linking the impulsive loadings from a blast or a blunt impact to the clinical injury patterns observed in TBI. Synthetic head models or phantoms can be used to establish this link as they can be constructed with geometry, anatomy, and material properties that match the human brain, and can be used as an alternative to animal models. This study presents one such phantom called the Anthropomorphic Neurologic Gyrencephalic Unified Standard (ANGUS) phantom, which is an idealized gyrencephalic brain phantom composed of polyacrylamide gel. Here we mechanically characterized the ANGUS phantom using tag

SUBMITTER: Knutsen AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10169236 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature