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Center of mass and anatomical coordinate system definition for sheep head kinematics, with application to ovine models of traumatic brain injury.

Jessica M Sharkey1, Ryan D Quarrington2, Charlie C Magarey2,3, Claire F Jones2,3.   

Abstract

Pathological outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including diffuse axonal injury, are influenced by the direction, magnitude, and duration of head acceleration during the injury exposure. Ovine models have been used to study injury mechanics and pathological outcomes of TBI. To accurately describe the kinematics of the head during an injury exposure, and better facilitate comparison with human head kinematics, anatomical coordinate systems (ACS) with an origin at the head or brain center of mass (CoM), and axes that align with the ovine Frankfort plane equivalent, are required. The aim of this study was to determine the mass properties of the sheep head and brain, and define an ACSvirtual for the head and brain, using anatomical landmarks on the skull with the aforementioned origins and orientation. Three-dimensional models of 10 merino sheep heads were constructed from computed tomography images, and the coordinates of the head and brain CoMs, relative to a previously reported sheep head coordinate system (ACSphysical ), were determined using the Hounsfield unit-mass density relationship. The ACSphysical origin was 34.8 ± 3.1 mm posterosuperior of the head CoM and 43.7 ± 1.7 anteroinferior of the brain CoM. Prominent internal anatomical landmarks were then used to define a new ACS (ACSvirtual ) with axes aligned with the Frankfort plane equivalent and an origin 10.4 ± 3.2 mm from the head CoM. The CoM and ACSvirtual defined in this study will increase the potential for comparison of head kinematics between ovine models and humans, in the context of TBI.
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Keywords:  anatomical coordinate system; brain; center of mass; ovine; preclinical model; skull; traumatic brain injury

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Year:  2022        PMID: 35443082      PMCID: PMC9322267          DOI: 10.1002/jnr.25049

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Neurosci Res        ISSN: 0360-4012            Impact factor:   4.433


This paper describes a method to determine an anatomically relevant coordinate system for the reporting of head kinematics in an ovine model of traumatic brain injury. The locations of the head and brain centers of mass were determined from CT images of 10 sheep skulls. A new anatomical coordinate system is proposed, which better relates to that used for humans. The methods and data provided herein will help the research community to better standardize reporting of the biomechanics of the head in animal models of brain injury, and these may also improve comparisons to human head kinematics descriptions.

INTRODUCTION

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in people aged under 45 years (Popescu et al., 2015). Despite 69 million people worldwide sustaining TBI every year, this life‐threatening injury is still poorly understood (Dewan et al., 2019). A key cause of neurological impairment following TBI is damage to the axonal white matter tracts in the brain (Smith et al., 2003). Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is present in mild, moderate, and severe TBI and increases with worsening injury severity (Smith et al., 2003). The precise mechanisms and tolerance criteria for the development of DAI are not currently known (Meaney et al., 2014). Animal models, cadaver models, injury reconstructions, and finite element (FE) models, have been used to investigate brain tissue mechanical and/or pathological response to closed‐head injury exposures (e.g., Alshareef et al., 2020; McIntosh et al., 2014; Namjoshi et al., 2013; Ueno & Melvin, 1995). Where head motion is allowed in animal models, acceleration due to an applied force (either impact or inertial) can produce focal and diffuse brain tissue damage (Anderson et al., 2003; Gennarelli et al., 1982; Lewis et al., 1996; Smith et al., 1997). When the applied force is aligned with the center of mass (CoM) of the head, linear acceleration is produced, whereas a force that is applied eccentrically to the CoM of the head causes rotational acceleration (Zuckerman et al., 2018). Linear head kinematics during TBI events are typically associated with focal hematomas and contusions, while rotational kinematics are thought to predominantly produce DAI pathology (Holbourn, 1943; Kleiven, 2013). The kinematics of the head during experimental modeling of an impact or inertial TBI event are described using three‐dimensional (3D) linear and angular accelerations along and about the axes of an anatomical coordinate system (ACS), with the origin at, or close to, the head CoM (Namjoshi et al., 2013). In humans and nonhuman primates (NHP), the head ACS is typically based on the Frankfort plane (Hofmann et al., 2016; Nusholtz et al., 1979) from which the location of the origin (corresponding approximately to the head CoM (Yoganandan et al., 2009)) is defined (e.g., Hardy et al., 2007; McIntosh et al., 2014; Nusholtz et al., 1979). In an effort to facilitate better clinical translation, the coordinate systems used to describe human head kinematics in TBI studies should be considered when developing animal models of TBI. Controlled nonimpact impulse exposures to NHPs (with brains that are similar to humans with respect to neuroanatomy and orientation of the neuro‐axis) have identified that the direction of rotational brain motion (i.e., the ACS plane in which rotational acceleration is applied) dictates the amount of DAI produced by inertial loading (Abel et al., 1978; Gennarelli et al., 1982, 1987; Margulies et al., 1990). In NHPs, angular accelerations produced by coronal‐plane head rotations elicit substantially worse damage to the brain than axial‐ or sagittal‐plane rotations, in extreme cases producing immediate, prolonged coma (Gennarelli et al., 1982). In contrast, when the same exposure type was applied to pigs, axial‐plane rotations produced more severe DAI than coronal‐ or sagittal‐plane rotation (Browne et al., 2011; Cullen et al., 2016). This difference may be due to the difference in orientation of the spinal‐axis relative to the cerebrum (amongst other directional anatomical features) in quadrupedal and bipedal animals (Meaney et al., 1995). These findings demonstrate the importance of species‐specific anatomical coordinate systems for defining and describing head kinematics during TBI experiments. A sheep model of impact acceleration TBI has previously been used (Anderson et al., 2003; Lewis et al., 1996) in which the head is allowed unconstrained motion in six‐degrees‐of‐freedom. In some studies using this model, a head‐mounted accelerometer array has been used to measure 3D kinematics during the injury exposure. The acceleration data are transformed from the coordinate system in which they are recorded, to an ACS (ACSphysical) formed from the digitization of two external landmarks (notches of the zygomatic processes of the malar bones) and the bregma (intersection of the parietal and frontal bones) which is accessed surgically (Anderson et al., 2003). This ACSphysical defines a plane which passes through the brain, but does not represent the natural orientation of the anatomical planes of the sheep head (i.e., equivalent to the Frankfort plane), nor the CoM of the head or brain, the location of which is currently not described in the literature. To our knowledge, there is no anatomically based head coordinate system in sheep or other quadrupedal animals. The aim of this study was to determine the location of the CoM of the head and brain in Merino wethers, relative to prominent anatomical landmarks, and to define an ACS which has similar orientation to accepted anatomical planes and an origin close to the CoM of the head.

METHODS

Study design and CT procedure

Ten male Merino wethers (18–24 months) underwent computed tomography (CT) imaging of the head (Brilliance 16, Philips, USA; 0.37 × 0.37 × 0.4 mm voxel size). Nine cadaveric sheep heads (decapitated at approximately third cervical vertebrae; obtained via Animal Ethics Committee scavenge approval) were placed in the prone position and underwent CT imaging. One live animal was anesthetized with intravenous ketamine (0.05 mg/kg; Troy Laboratories Australia, Pty Ltd.) and diazepam (0.04 ml/kg; Ceva Australia), followed by endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation (Ohmeda 7000 ventilator, Ohmeda, Madison, WI, USA) delivering 2%–3% isoflurane in a normoxic mix of oxygen [O2 (30%)] and air (70%) at a flow rate of 4 L/min, and placed in the supine position on the CT scanner bed. This live animal was used under approval of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute Animal Ethics Committee (SAM396.19).

Generating tissue masks

Image analysis software (MIMICS v22.0, Materialize, USA) was used to determine the head and brain CoM for each animal. Hounsfield unit (HU) threshold bands were used to create initial masks that distinguished the soft tissues (including brain; −150 to 225 HU) and hard tissues (bone and teeth; 226–2,800 HU). As a result of decapitation, the soft tissue mask included material (blood and serous fluid) pooled in the container beneath the head. This fluid layer, in addition to uneven soft tissue of the neck, and the ears, were removed from the model. The ears were excluded because they were inconsistently positioned within the CT scanner, but they were deemed unlikely to substantially affect the head CoM location due to their symmetry (they are typically taped close to the head in these injury models) and low mass. The brain was separated from the refined soft tissue mask using the “split mask” function so that its CoM could be determined independently.

Tissue mass and center of mass calculations

The HU associated with each voxel of each tissue mask was exported from MIMICS, and HU values were converted to masses using the relationship described in Equation 1. This scanner‐specific calibration equation was derived from scans of density calibration phantoms (Model 062M, Cirs Inc., Norfolk, VA, USA). The volume and total mass of each tissue mask were then determined by summing voxel volume and mass, respectively, using custom MATLAB (R2020a, Mathworks, Natick, MA, USA) code. The x, y, and z coordinates of the CoM (expressed in the CT coordinate system) of each tissue mask were calculated from the CT coordinates (, , ) and mass () of each voxel, using Equation 2. The mask masses () and CoM locations were then used to derive the coordinates of the head CoM (, , ) (Equation 3).

Development of an ACS with reference to the anatomical planes of sheep head

The head CoM coordinates were imported back into MIMICS and were visualized alongside a 3D model of the hard tissue. Bony landmarks were identified that would produce an ACS (ACSvirtual) for which the origin was positioned near the head CoM, and the axes were aligned approximately with the anatomical axes corresponding to the head in a forward‐gaze posture (i.e., ovine Frankfort plane equivalent). The coordinates of these anatomical landmarks, and those that defined the previously used sheep head ACS (ACSphysical) (Anderson et al., 2003), were identified on the 3D models and exported. In ACSphysical, the origin is located at the midpoint between the notches of the left and right zygomatic processes, the x axis is positive toward the notch of the right zygomatic process, the z axis is positive toward the bregma, and the y axis is orthogonal to the x and z axis (Figure 1).
FIGURE 1

CoM of the head (black circles: open, each animal; closed, average location) and brain (white circles: open, each animal; closed, average location), relative to the ACSphysical, overlaid on bone/teeth and brain masks for a representative animal

CoM of the head (black circles: open, each animal; closed, average location) and brain (white circles: open, each animal; closed, average location), relative to the ACSphysical, overlaid on bone/teeth and brain masks for a representative animal Transformation matrices are required to transform kinematic data from ACSphysical to each of the anatomically relevant ACS (ACSvirtual(Head) and ACSvirtual(Brain)). To compare ACSphysical and ACSvirtual, the transformation matrix between them was determined for each animal and the difference in orientation between axes was calculated by solving for Euler angles using an x–y–z sequence (Robertson et al., 2013). The translation of the origin was also calculated. The mean transformation matrix from ACSphysical to ACSvirtual () was calculated as follows; the average of each component of the rotation matrices was determined and, using the x–y plane as the reference, cross‐products were performed to ensure orthogonality of the “average” axes (Figure 2). Similar transformation matrices that placed the origin of ACSvirtual at the mean CoM location of the head () and brain () were also determined (Figure 2).
FIGURE 2

ACSphysical (black), and ACSvirtual (white), with the anatomical landmarks: Left and right malar/maxillary junctions and their midpoint (closed gray circles), left and right supraorbital foramina and their midpoint (open gray circles). The transformation matrices between ACSphysical and ACSvirtual (), and between ACSphysical and ACS with the origin at the center of mass of the head () and brain () are shown

RESULTS

The total head mass was 3,519 ± 299 g (mean ± SD), with mean constituent tissue masses of: brain 155 ± 6 g; bone/teeth 851 ± 75 g; and, soft tissue 2,513 ± 258 g (Table 1).
TABLE 1

Body, head, and constituent tissue masses for each animal, estimated from the CT models

SpecimenBody Mass (kg)Bone/teethBrainSoft tissueTotal
Volume (cm3)Mass (g)Volume (cm3)Mass (g)Volume (cm3)Mass (g)Volume (cm3)Mass (g)
166.5575.4845159.91632,954.12,9793,689.43,987
269.5600.3903148.61522,423.52,4553,172.43,510
371.0531.4780154.71582,781.22,8113,467.33,748
470.5590.0861146.81502,429.42,4473,166.23,458
568.0564.3829152.81562,362.22,3893,079.33,375
668.5648.7937153.91572,572.42,6023,375.03,696
770.5617.6919160.21642,539.32,5693,317.13,651
868.0574.9856144.91482,349.12,3773,068.93,381
973.0605.3896155.21582,448.82,4763,209.33,530
●1051.0460.3684143.71472,009.32,0262,613.32,857
Mean67.7576.8851152.11552,486.92,5133,215.83,519
SD 6.151.8755.96255.3258284.9299

Note: ● = live animal.

Body, head, and constituent tissue masses for each animal, estimated from the CT models Note: ● = live animal. The calculated head CoM was 34.8 ± 3.1 mm from the ACSphysical origin, and was positioned anteroinferior to it (Table 2, Figure 1, and Video S1). The brain CoM was 43.7 ± 1.7 mm from the ACSphysical origin, and was positioned posterosuperiorly (Table 2, Figure 1, and Video S1).
TABLE 2

Anatomical coordinates of the CoM for each sheep head and brain, in the ACSphysical

SpecimenHeadBrain
Center of mass coordinates in landmark ACSphysical (mm)CoM distance to ACSphysical origin (mm)Center of mass coordinates in landmark ACSphysical (mm)CoM distance to ACSphysical origin (mm)
x y z x y z
10.3−5.0−32.132.5−0.6−16.842.345.5
2−1.02.7−37.137.3−0.4−16.438.341.6
31.7−4.5−36.436.7−0.7−15.141.744.3
41.80.8−33.133.20.5−17.941.244.9
5−0.4−3.5−37.037.1−0.1−17.740.944.6
61.7−0.2−36.036.10.9−13.440.642.7
71.01.9−31.631.6−0.9−11.043.144.5
81.3−2.5−38.939.0−0.4−18.341.545.4
90.8−1.7−36.136.10.1−11.741.843.4
● 101.5−0.8−28.028.1−0.7−15.137.939.9
Mean ± SD 34.8 ± 3.1Mean ± SD 43.7 ± 1.7
Maximum variation from mean6.7Maximum variation from mean3.8

Note: ● = live animal.

Anatomical coordinates of the CoM for each sheep head and brain, in the ACSphysical Note: ● = live animal. ACSphysical (black), and ACSvirtual (white), with the anatomical landmarks: Left and right malar/maxillary junctions and their midpoint (closed gray circles), left and right supraorbital foramina and their midpoint (open gray circles). The transformation matrices between ACSphysical and ACSvirtual (), and between ACSphysical and ACS with the origin at the center of mass of the head () and brain () are shown ACSvirtual was defined with the origin at the midpoint between the left and right malar/maxillary junction, the x axis positive toward the notch of the right malar maxillary junction, the z axis positive toward midpoint of the left and right supraorbital foramina, and the y axis orthogonal to the x and z axis. The origin of ACSvirtual was, on average, 10.4 ± 3.2 mm from the head CoM (Figure 2, Table 4, Video S2). The brain CoM was, on average, 73.4 ± 5.5 mm from the ACSvirtual origin, and remained anteroinferior to it. Relative to ACSphysical, the y–z plane was rotated, on average, −37.5 ± 2.5° about the x axis, providing a more vertical z axis, and an x–y plane parallel to the ground with forward gaze (Table 3). Rotations about the other axes were small (mean 0.3 ± 0.9° about y, 1.2 ± 1.4° about z) (Table 3). The origin was translated as follows: x: 0.2 mm, y: 5.9 mm, and z: −29.4 mm. The complete transformation matrix is provided in Figure 2 and in Supplementary material.
TABLE 4

Anatomical coordinates of the sheep head CoM and brain CoM, in ACSvirtual

SpecimenHeadBrain
Center of mass coordinates in ACSvirtual (mm)CoM distance to ACSvirtual origin (absolute) (mm)Center of mass coordinates in ACSvirtual (mm)CoM distance to ACSvirtual origin (absolute) (mm)
x y z x y z
1−0.9−13.2−3.613.7−6.0−63.852.182.6
2−0.70.9−9.39.3−3.0−59.140.371.6
31.3−7.2−9.412.0−2.6−61.347.877.8
41.3−0.1−6.26.3−2.2−58.143.972.8
5−0.2−3.5−9.610.2−0.7−62.842.976.0
60.8−5.0−7.99.4−2.1−60.846.276.4
71.5−4.2−4.06.0−1.5−60.446.876.4
80.57.6−14.816.72.0−58.134.267.4
90.1−1.0−12.712.7−1.1−58.141.271.2
● 102.00.7−7.37.6−2.3−50.635.561.8
Mean ± SD 10.4 ± 3.2Mean ± SD 73.4 ± 5.5
Maximum variation from mean6.3Maximum variation from mean11.6

Note: ● = live animal.

TABLE 3

Angle between ACSphysical and ACSvirtual, about each axis, for each animal

SpecimenAngle between ACSphysical and ACSvirtual (about axis in degrees)
x y z
1−33.40.73.8
2−36.21.31.8
3−35.70.41.1
4−35.11.50.8
5−38.2−1.11.7
6−36.21.11.1
7−38.1−0.31.4
8−42.2−1.1−1.9
9−39.40.10.4
● 10−40.20.71.9
Mean ± SD −37.5 ± 2.50.3 ± 0.91.2 ± 1.4
Maximum variation from mean4.71.43.1

Note: ● = live animal.

Angle between ACSphysical and ACSvirtual, about each axis, for each animal Note: ● = live animal. Anatomical coordinates of the sheep head CoM and brain CoM, in ACSvirtual Note: ● = live animal.

DISCUSSION

Accurate definition of head and brain CoM, and an ACS that facilitates comparison to human head coordinate systems, is needed for preclinical large animal models of TBI. Such standardized definitions allow rotational and linear accelerations to be defined consistently between animals and between research groups, and increase the potential for comparison with human head TBI kinematics. In this study, the location of head and brain CoMs, relative to a previously reported sheep head ACS (ACSphysical), were determined for 10 skeletally mature Merino wethers. A more anatomically representative ACS (ACSvirtual), with the origin close to the head CoM and a horizontal plane orientation corresponding approximately with the animal’s neutral standing forward‐gaze head posture (similar to the human Frankfort plane), was determined using anatomical landmarks defined on CT, and the transformation matrices that place the origin of this ACS at the CoM of the head and brain were calculated. The estimated brain mass was consistent with that reported previously for Merino sheep (ewes, 160 g) of comparable age and body mass (Lewis et al., 1996) . In the present study, the ventricles were included in the brain tissue mask, whereas this comparator harvested brain tissue (Lewis et al., 1996) was likely devoid of cerebrospinal fluid. On average, the brain was 0.24% of body mass, and the head was 5.6% of body mass. The head mass was dominated by the soft tissue (muscle, skin, fat, etc.) components, which comprised, on average, 74.1% of the total head mass. The ACSvirtual origin was, on average, 10 mm from the head CoM, compared to 32 mm for ACSphysical (Anderson et al., 2003). Additionally, the ACSvirtual axis orientation had better similitude to the typical human head coordinate system, as it resulted an x–y plane corresponding to “forward‐gaze” head posture equivalent to the human Frankfort plane. This reorientation would distribute the components of the resultant head kinematics between axes that are more similar to those typically used when reporting for human head kinematics. This could be important because evidence from animal studies (primate and pig) indicates that severity of DAI is dependent on the direction of head rotation (Browne et al., 2011; Cullen et al., 2016; Gennarelli et al., 1982; Ross et al., 1994). Observational studies of human TBI exposure events using video reconstruction methods and/or wearable sensors typically report head kinematics relative to the CoM of the head, which is usually estimated to lie at some standardized distance anterior to the auditory meatus and superior to the Frankfort plane, on the sagittal midline (Slykhouse et al., 2019; Yoganandan et al., 2009). Therefore, describing head kinematics with reference to the CoM of the head and/or brain during exposure events for sheep TBI models, together with application of established acceleration–brain mass scaling relationships (Browne et al., 2011; Holbourn, 1943; Ommaya et al., 1967), and in the context of other model limitations, may allow better comparison with direction‐specific human TBI exposures. The CoMs of the sheep head and brain were not coincident; the CoM of the head was anterior (rostral) and inferior (ventral) of the brain CoM. Previous TBI research using nonhuman primates has described head accelerations with reference to the CoM of the brain (estimated at the pineal gland, located at the notional “center of the brain”), rather than the head (Abel et al., 1978). The TBI sheep model used by Anderson et al. (2003), used ACSphysical, which lies on a plane that passes through the brain, but was not defined with reference to a known CoM of the sheep brain or head. Using the CoM of the brain (instead of the head) as the reference point for describing accelerations associated with exposure events may give rise to better understanding of the relationship between head kinematics and resulting neuropathologies such as DAI. This may be particularly relevant to sheep models of TBI given the distance between the CoM of the head and the CoM of the brain, and this result may extend to other quadrupeds for which the skull cavity housing the brain is not centered in the head due to anterior elongation of the head/snout. There are several ways in which the data presented herein can be incorporated into TBI animal model protocols (Figure 3), if CT imaging is not available onsite (Generic Pathway), and depending on the extent to which subject‐specific models from CT data are defined (Specimen Specific Pathway A and B). It is often necessary to define landmarks on the animal head and on test equipment (e.g., accelerometers, angular rate sensors, and high‐speed tracking markers rigidly mounted on the head; injury apparatus fixed to laboratory floor) in a common laboratory coordinate system to enable accurate definition of the relative position of the anatomy and equipment in space. When the landmarks can be palpated or easily accessed (as for ACSphysical), landmark definition can be done using a coordinate measuring machine or motion capture system. However, ACSvirtual is based on internal bony landmarks that cannot be physically accessed in vivo. Thus, we propose three potential pipelines to implement the methods and data reported herein to obtain head kinematics at, or close to, the animal’s head or brain CoM (Figure 3).
FIGURE 3

Three proposed pathways for implementing the CoM and ACSvirtual methods and/or data to produce head kinematics data based on head or brain CoM location/orientation in sheep (or other large animal) TBI models. ACSCOM refers to either ACShead or ACSbrain, as appropriate for the reference coordinate system

Three proposed pathways for implementing the CoM and ACSvirtual methods and/or data to produce head kinematics data based on head or brain CoM location/orientation in sheep (or other large animal) TBI models. ACSCOM refers to either ACShead or ACSbrain, as appropriate for the reference coordinate system In all cases, the relationship between skull mounted equipment and the skull is determined using the ACSphysical landmarks as these are well‐defined and can be palpated (zygomatic notch) or accessed via soft tissue resection (bregma). Specimen specific Pathways A and B (Figure 3) require preinjury head CTs. Pathway A is more time and computationally intensive; the CT scans are used to accurately locate CoM of the head and/or brain for each animal, to account for animal‐specific anatomical variation. Pathway B uses internal landmarks from the CT, or derived 3D models, to determine ACSvirtual. For the Generic pathway, the orientation and origin locations of ACSvirtual, ACShead, and ACSbrain are estimated by the transformation provided (Figure 2, Supplementary material).

LIMITATIONS

There are several limitations to this study. A validation study of the CT method using the physical tissue was not undertaken. A comparison of whole head mass would likely have been confounded by the difficulty of accurately physically removing soft tissue similar to that removed virtually in the model. Similar CT modeling methods were previously employed and the outcomes compared to physical measures of CoM for four human cadaveric heads, with no significant difference between the methods detected (Roush, 2010). While most other studies evaluating human head CoM have done so using only physical measurements (as reviewed by (Yoganandan et al., 2009)), some have used CT modeling methods similar to ours (Loyd et al., 2010) and the practice is described briefly elsewhere (Slykhouse et al., 2019). Only skeletally mature Merino wethers were investigated in this study; the head CoM may vary for other sheep species, and by age and sex. Within our specimens, the head CoM varied by approximately 4 mm from the mean CoM. Because the majority (9/10) of imaging was performed on decapitated heads from recently deceased animals (~1–3 hr), cerebrospinal fluid and blood loss may have occurred, and the tissue was not perfused. This could have affected the morphology of the soft tissues and brain, and therefore the CoM estimations. However, qualitative comparison with the single animal that was scanned in vivo showed no appreciable differences in brain morphology shape or size. Although this animal had lower body mass, and was intubated during the CT scan, the estimated head and brain CoM were comparable to those estimated for the nine ex vivo heads.

CONCLUSIONS

Specimen specific 3D models of sheep head tissues were derived from CT data and used to determine tissue masses and the CoM of both the brain and head. Using these data, an anatomically relevant coordinate system was defined, based on internal landmarks that aligned the head in a neutral (forward gaze) position and with its origin close to the head CoM. The CoMs and ACSvirtual defined in this study may allow for better comparison of head kinematics observed in human head trauma exposures with those in ovine TBI models.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Conceptualization, CFJ; Methodology, JMS, RDQ, CCM and CFJ; Validation, JMS, RDQ, CCM and CFJ; Formal Analysis, JMS, RDQ and CCM; Investigation, JMS, RDQ, CCM and CFJ; Resources, CFJ; Data Curation, RDQ; Writing – Original Draft, JMS, RDQ, CCM and CFJ; Writing – Review & Editing, RDQ and CFJ; Visualization, RDQ and CCM; Supervision, CFJ; Project Administration, CFJ; Funding Acquisition, RDQ and CFJ.

PEER REVIEW

The peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/jnr.25049. Video S1 Click here for additional data file. Video S2 Click here for additional data file. Supplementary material Click here for additional data file. Supplementary material Click here for additional data file.
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Journal:  Dis Model Mech       Date:  2013-09-12       Impact factor: 5.758

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1.  Center of mass and anatomical coordinate system definition for sheep head kinematics, with application to ovine models of traumatic brain injury.

Authors:  Jessica M Sharkey; Ryan D Quarrington; Charlie C Magarey; Claire F Jones
Journal:  J Neurosci Res       Date:  2022-04-20       Impact factor: 4.433

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