Cervical spine finite element modeling of a six-year-old child

With the increase in registered automobiles, children involved in motor vehicle accidents have been on the rise, but protection of children is not optimal. For better understanding of child injury mechanisms, the study built a cervical spine finite element model of a 6-year-old child. Firstly, the g...

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Published in2012 5th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics pp. 627 - 631
Main Authors Siping Huang, Shuming Pan, Qirong Du, Hongyan Wang, Junyi Chen
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2012
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cervical spine
child
computer simulation
Finite Element Analysis
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Summary:With the increase in registered automobiles, children involved in motor vehicle accidents have been on the rise, but protection of children is not optimal. For better understanding of child injury mechanisms, the study built a cervical spine finite element model of a 6-year-old child. Firstly, the geometry of the cervical spine was acquired from a 6-year-old child by 64 dual-source CT thin scan. Secondly, a smooth NURBS model was built by utilizing surface reconstruction technologies for Reverse Engineering. Lastly, the finite element model was built in the Abaqus 6.9 software. The model validation was conduced against the dummy model crash test in MADYMO. The dynamic response rule of our model was similar with one of the multi-body dummy model in frontal impact accident.
ISBN:9781467311830
1467311839
DOI:10.1109/BMEI.2012.6512904