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Biomechanics of the Pediatric Head and Spine: Applying the Lessons Learned from Adults. Barry Myers, Alan Dibb, Jason Luck, Plato Alexander, Andre Loyd, Donald Frush, and Roger Nightingale Injury and Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Biomechanics of the Pediatric Head and Spine: Applying the Lessons Learned from Adults Barry Myers, Alan Dibb, Jason Luck, Plato Alexander, Andre Loyd, Donald Frush, and Roger Nightingale Injury and Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory Department of Biomedical Engineering Division of Orthopedic Surgery Duke University
Introduction: Motivation • Enhance pediatric head and neck computational models, child ATDs, and pediatric neck and head injury criteria • Biofidelic anthropometry • Mechanical properties • Validation datasets
Introduction: Pediatric Head • Anatomy – 3D head contour • Constitutive properties – skull and suture • Structural properties – whole head
Anatomy: 3D Head Contour • Clinical CT scans • Ages 1 month to 10-years-old • Male and female • MATLab code • Average head contours
Anatomy: Male Head Contours Sagittal plane Average head contour insensitive to averaging technique (p>0.95)
Anatomy: 3D 3 Year Old HeadProposed Work – Other Age Groups 3-year-old head contour: average RMS error = 3.8mm
length=1.79 width=2.68 thickness=1.80 Constitutive Properties Skull & Suture 3.5 3 2.5 2 Stress (Pa * 10,000) 1.5 1 0.5 0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 Strain (mm/mm)
Constitutive Properties: Skull & SutureProposed work – Segmentation & Inverse FEA • Accurate geometry • 2nd order tetrahedrals • Optimization (LS-DYNA and LS-OPT) • Elastic • Viscoelastic
Upper Plate Load Cell Specimen Lower Plate MTS ram Structural Properties - Whole Head:Quasi-Static Compression & Impact
CRABI vs Infant: Head Impact 15 cm drop 30 cm drop
Introduction: Pediatric Cervical Spine • Anatomy – osteoligamentous and muscular • Constitutive properties – synchondroses • Structural properties – cervical spine
6 Axis Load Cell MTS Hydraulic Actuator Structural Properties: Cervical Spine • Specimen Pool (n = 6) • Male and Female • 20 and 33 weeks gestation • 1, 3, 11 and 24 days • Specimen Preparation • Frozen human cervical spines • Occiput – T1 • Musculature & mandible removed • Fixation at head and T1 • Frankfurt Plane established
Pediatric Spine: Bending Stiffness • You can’t push on a rope
Summary: Duke Program • Anatomy – 3D head contour • Constitutive properties – skull and suture • Structural properties – whole head • Anatomy – osteoligamentous and muscular • Constitutive properties – synchondroses • Structural properties – cervical spine
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration • Altair Engineering • Duke Visualization Technology Group • The Duke Center for In Vivo Micropscopy