Modeling Brain Injury
Research by a Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield as a result of a car accident. Researchers started by importing a digitally processed, computed tomography (CT) scan of a healthy female head into the Sandia-developed shock physics computer code. Computer models were then constructed representing the skull, brain, CSF, and windshield glass. Axial view of compressive pressure in head model (glass at top). Pressure scale: red=30 atmospheres, blue=1 atmosphere.
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