Trial reportAnnals of biomedical engineering2017
Rib Geometry Explains Variation in Dynamic Structural Response: Potential Implications for Frontal Impact Fracture Risk.
Trial report in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Investigating the Impact of Blunt Force Trauma: A Probabilistic Study of Behind Armor Blunt Trauma Risk.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Probabilistic Finite Element Analysis of Human Rib Biomechanics: A Framework for Improved Generalizability.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Biomechanics of chest wall injury: implications for surgical stabilization and failure prevention.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Review
- Population trends in human rib cross-sectional shapes.Journal of anatomy · 2024Article
- Functionally graded 3D printed plates for rib fracture fixation.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2024Article
- Cross-sectional properties of rib geometry from an adult population.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Influences of human thorax variability on population rib fracture risk prediction using human body models.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Rib cortical bone thickness variation in adults by age and sex.Journal of anatomy · 2022Article
- Experimental study exploring the factors that promote rib fragility in the elderly.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Regional maps of rib cortical bone thickness and cross-sectional geometry.Journal of anatomy · 2019Article
- Comparing rib cortical thickness measurements from computed tomography (CT) and Micro-CT.Computers in biology and medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
The human thorax is commonly injured in motor vehicle crashes, and despite advancements in occupant safety rib fractures are highly prevalent. The objective of this study was to quantify the ability of gross and cross-sectional geometry, separately and in combination, to explain variation of human rib structural properties. One hundred and twenty-two whole mid-level ribs from 76 fresh post-mortem human subjects were tested in a dynamic frontal impact scenario. Structural properties (peak force and stiffness) were successfully predicted (p < 0.001) by rib cross-sectional geometry obtained via direct histological imaging (total area, cortical area, and section modulus) and were improved further when utilizing a combination of cross-sectional and gross geometry (robusticity, whole bone strength index). Additionally, preliminary application of a novel, adaptive thresholding technique, allowed for total area and robusticity to be measured on a subsample of standard clinical CT scans with varied success. These results can be used to understand variation in individual rib response to frontal loading as well as identify important geometric parameters, which could ultimately improve injury criteria as well as the biofidelity of anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) and finite element (FE) models of the human thorax.
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