Potential therapeutic actions of hypothermia: Finite-element simulation of human skull deformation with hypothermia treatment

Author

Yue, Xianfang ; Wang, Ruonan ; Wang, Li ; Liu, Jiaxin

Author_Institution

Dept. Thermal Eng., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1240

Lastpage

1244

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: A quantitative effect of the hypothermia treatment was made on the cranial-cavity deformation with the increasing intracranial pressure (ICP). METHORDS: Finite element software-ANSYS was used to construct a human cranial cavity model, and simulate the deformations with and without hypothermia treatment. RESULTS: The deformation of the cranial-cavity model with hypothermia treatment is 0.56% less on average than the results without hypothermia treatment. CONCLUSION: The influence of hypothermia on the cranial-cavity deformation should be considered in clinical situations.

Keywords

biomechanics; biothermics; brain; deformation; finite element analysis; patient treatment; physiological models; ANSYS; cranial-cavity deformation; deformation; finite element element; finite-element simulation; human skull; hypothermia; intracranial pressure; Cavity resonators; Cranial; Finite element methods; Humans; Iterative closest point algorithm; Skull; Strain; ANSYS; cranial cavity; deformation; finite element; human skull; hypothermia; intracranial pressure; treatment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2010 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yantai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6495-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2010.5639279

Filename

5639279