A proposed tolerance criterion for diffuse axonal injury in man.

The head injury criterion (HIC) is currently the government-accepted head injury indicator. The HIC is not injury-specific, does not relate to injury severity, nor does it take into account variations in the brain mass or load direction. This report focuses on one type of inertial brain injury, diffuse axonal injury (DAI), and utilizes animal studies, physical model experiments, and analytical model simulations to determine the kinematics of DAI in the subhuman primate and to scale these results to man. A human injury tolerance for moderate to severe DAI, which includes the influences of rotational loads and brain mass, is proposed.

• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Journal of Biomechanics

• Publication date

  1992-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/0021-9290(92)90231-OPMID 1639835
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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