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. 2014 Oct 22;2014:408278. doi: 10.1155/2014/408278

Table 1.

Element number and materials properties in the FE model.

Components Number of elements Behaviour Density
(kg/m3)
Poisson's ratio Young's modulus, E (GPa)
Viscoelastic response
(Prony series approximation)
References
Brainstem 6104 Viscoelastic 1060 0.4996 G(t) = 0.0045 + (0.0225 − 0.0045)e t/80 Horgan and Gilchrist [37]

Cerebral peduncle 1762 Viscoelastic 1060 0.4996 G(t) = 0.0045 + (0.0225 − 0.0045)e t/80 Horgan and Gilchrist [37]

Cerebellum 21727 Viscoelastic 1140 0.48 G(t) = 0.168 + (0.528 − 0.168)e t/35 Turquier et al. [47],
Willinger et al. [48],
Shuck and Advani [49], and Yoganandan et al. [50]

CSF Fluid 1000 Zhou et al. [31] and Yan and Pangestu [32]

Gray matter 436917 Viscoelastic 1040 0.4996 G(t) = 0.0064 + (0.034 − 0.0064)e t/700 Zhang et al. [12] and Al-Bsharat et al. [51]

Lateral cartilage 2874 Elastic 1500 0.45 E = 0.030 Westreich et al. [36]

Septum cartilage 3578 Elastic 1500 0.32 E = 0.009 Grellmann et al. [52]

Skull bone and cervical vertebra 130482 Elastic 1210 0.22 E = 8.000 Zhang et al. [12]

Neck and facial soft tissues 253894 Elastic 1040 0.46 E = 0.01667 Zhang et al. [12] and Kleiven [53]

Ventricles 36776 Viscoelastic 1080 0.49 G(t) = 0.00101 + (0.101 − 0.00101)e t/100 Zhang et al. [12]

White matter 278925 Viscoelastic 1040 0.4996 G(t) = 0.0078 + (0.041 − 0.0078)e t/700 Al-Bsharat et al. [51]