Table 5.

Correlation between experimental and simulated stress–stretch curves (figures 7 and 8). r-values are calculated for different areas of the brain.

brain area	curve 1	curve 2	curve 3
occipital lobe (k = 0.3333)	0.8040	0.7283	0.8685
occipital lobe (k = 0.2943)	0.8220	0.7582	0.8907
frontal and parietal lobes (k = 0.2943)	0.9775	0.9525	0.9876
frontal and parietal lobes (k = 0.2732)	0.9767	0.9504	0.9865
thalamus (k = 0.2732)	0.9901	0.9996	0.9887
thalamus (k = 0.2500)	0.9936	0.9991	0.9897
corona radiata (k = 0.2500)	0.9742	0.9441	0.9516
corona radiata (k = 0.2000)	0.9722	0.9391	0.9468
corpus callosum (k = 0.2000)	0.9388	0.7611	0.9331
corpus callosum (k = 0.1000)	0.9086	0.8858	0.9875
corpus callosum (k = 0.0000)	0.7987	0.9706	0.9866