Table 2.
Element types used in previous infant FE model studies.
| Study | Element Type |
Number of Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalp | Skull | Suture | Brain | ||
| Margulies and Thibault (2000) | 4 node linear shell | 4 node linear shell | 8 node linear brick | 12 772 | |
| Coats et al. (2007) | Hexagonal 8 node solid | Hexagonal 8 node shell | 2D 4 node membrane | Tetrahedral 10 node | 32881 |
| Roth et al. (2007) | Brick | Shell | Shell | Brick | 69 324 brick, 9187 shell |
| Roth et al. (2008) | As Above | ||||
| Roth et al. (2010) | Brick | Shell | Shell | Brick | 30 000 solid, 3700 shell |
| Li et al. (2013b) | Mesh Morphing Model | 38 916 solid, 7 680 shell |
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| Li et al. (2013a) | Shell | Shell | Shell | Hexahedral | 50 404 |
| Li et al. (2015a) | Baseline model same as Li et al. (2013a) above | ||||
| Li et al. (2017) | Hexahedron | 5.3 million for nine month old infant | |||