Item Details

title

Validation and Evaluation of Cortical and Full Skull Thickness Changes with Age and Sex

author

Lillie, Elizabeth Marie

abstract

It is estimated there are 1.7 million cases of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) each year where falls and motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the number one and two contributors. From 2002-2006 TBI accounted for 30% of all injury related deaths seen from emergency department visits despite the lower injury occurrence rate of 5%. Furthermore the TBIs from MVCs resulted in the largest number of TBI-related deaths (31.8%). Although studies have been conducted analyzing TBI from blunt loading conditions, more information is needed to understand the biomechanical contributors to the type and severity of TBI. One important contributor is believed to be skull deformation, and characterizing the skull's thickness and how it changes is an important step toward understanding skull deformation potential and its attribution to TBI.

subject

Computed Tomography

Cortical Thickness

Skull

contributor

Stitzel, Joel D (committee chair)

Rowson, Steven (committee member)

Powers, Alexander (committee member)

date

2014-07-10T08:35:41Z (accessioned)

2016-07-10T08:30:12Z (available)

2014 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

embargo

2016-07-10 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39320 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis