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. 2016 Mar 14;7:31. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00031

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Copyright © 2016 Stemper, Shah, Budde, Olsen, Glavaski-Joksimovic, Kurpad, McCrea and Pintar.

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MCW rotational injury device that induces mild traumatic brain injury in rats through pure coronal plane head rotational acceleration. The device consists of a rodent helmet with laterally extended moment arm. An impactor rod is accelerated to impact the moment arm, causing the helmet to rotate in the coronal plane. Impact characteristics are modulated to control head rotational acceleration magnitude and duration using impactor velocity and material characteristics of an elastomer interface on the struck surface of the moment arm.