| Literature DB >> 35443082 |
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.Entities:
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
FIGURE 1CoM 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
FIGURE 2ACSphysical (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
Body, head, and constituent tissue masses for each animal, estimated from the CT models
| Specimen | Body Mass (kg) | Bone/teeth | Brain | Soft tissue | Total | ||||
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| Volume (cm3) | Mass (g) | Volume (cm3) | Mass (g) | Volume (cm3) | Mass (g) | Volume (cm3) | Mass (g) | ||
| 1 | 66.5 | 575.4 | 845 | 159.9 | 163 | 2,954.1 | 2,979 | 3,689.4 | 3,987 |
| 2 | 69.5 | 600.3 | 903 | 148.6 | 152 | 2,423.5 | 2,455 | 3,172.4 | 3,510 |
| 3 | 71.0 | 531.4 | 780 | 154.7 | 158 | 2,781.2 | 2,811 | 3,467.3 | 3,748 |
| 4 | 70.5 | 590.0 | 861 | 146.8 | 150 | 2,429.4 | 2,447 | 3,166.2 | 3,458 |
| 5 | 68.0 | 564.3 | 829 | 152.8 | 156 | 2,362.2 | 2,389 | 3,079.3 | 3,375 |
| 6 | 68.5 | 648.7 | 937 | 153.9 | 157 | 2,572.4 | 2,602 | 3,375.0 | 3,696 |
| 7 | 70.5 | 617.6 | 919 | 160.2 | 164 | 2,539.3 | 2,569 | 3,317.1 | 3,651 |
| 8 | 68.0 | 574.9 | 856 | 144.9 | 148 | 2,349.1 | 2,377 | 3,068.9 | 3,381 |
| 9 | 73.0 | 605.3 | 896 | 155.2 | 158 | 2,448.8 | 2,476 | 3,209.3 | 3,530 |
| ●10 | 51.0 | 460.3 | 684 | 143.7 | 147 | 2,009.3 | 2,026 | 2,613.3 | 2,857 |
| Mean | 67.7 | 576.8 | 851 | 152.1 | 155 | 2,486.9 | 2,513 | 3,215.8 | 3,519 |
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| 6.1 | 51.8 | 75 | 5.9 | 6 | 255.3 | 258 | 284.9 | 299 |
Note: ● = live animal.
Anatomical coordinates of the CoM for each sheep head and brain, in the ACSphysical
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| 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) | |||||
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| 1 | 0.3 | −5.0 | −32.1 | 32.5 | −0.6 | −16.8 | 42.3 | 45.5 |
| 2 | −1.0 | 2.7 | −37.1 | 37.3 | −0.4 | −16.4 | 38.3 | 41.6 |
| 3 | 1.7 | −4.5 | −36.4 | 36.7 | −0.7 | −15.1 | 41.7 | 44.3 |
| 4 | 1.8 | 0.8 | −33.1 | 33.2 | 0.5 | −17.9 | 41.2 | 44.9 |
| 5 | −0.4 | −3.5 | −37.0 | 37.1 | −0.1 | −17.7 | 40.9 | 44.6 |
| 6 | 1.7 | −0.2 | −36.0 | 36.1 | 0.9 | −13.4 | 40.6 | 42.7 |
| 7 | 1.0 | 1.9 | −31.6 | 31.6 | −0.9 | −11.0 | 43.1 | 44.5 |
| 8 | 1.3 | −2.5 | −38.9 | 39.0 | −0.4 | −18.3 | 41.5 | 45.4 |
| 9 | 0.8 | −1.7 | −36.1 | 36.1 | 0.1 | −11.7 | 41.8 | 43.4 |
| ● 10 | 1.5 | −0.8 | −28.0 | 28.1 | −0.7 | −15.1 | 37.9 | 39.9 |
| Mean ± | 34.8 ± 3.1 | Mean ± | 43.7 ± 1.7 | |||||
| Maximum variation from mean | 6.7 | Maximum variation from mean | 3.8 | |||||
Note: ● = live animal.
Anatomical coordinates of the sheep head CoM and brain CoM, in ACSvirtual
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| 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) | |||||
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| 1 | −0.9 | −13.2 | −3.6 | 13.7 | −6.0 | −63.8 | 52.1 | 82.6 |
| 2 | −0.7 | 0.9 | −9.3 | 9.3 | −3.0 | −59.1 | 40.3 | 71.6 |
| 3 | 1.3 | −7.2 | −9.4 | 12.0 | −2.6 | −61.3 | 47.8 | 77.8 |
| 4 | 1.3 | −0.1 | −6.2 | 6.3 | −2.2 | −58.1 | 43.9 | 72.8 |
| 5 | −0.2 | −3.5 | −9.6 | 10.2 | −0.7 | −62.8 | 42.9 | 76.0 |
| 6 | 0.8 | −5.0 | −7.9 | 9.4 | −2.1 | −60.8 | 46.2 | 76.4 |
| 7 | 1.5 | −4.2 | −4.0 | 6.0 | −1.5 | −60.4 | 46.8 | 76.4 |
| 8 | 0.5 | 7.6 | −14.8 | 16.7 | 2.0 | −58.1 | 34.2 | 67.4 |
| 9 | 0.1 | −1.0 | −12.7 | 12.7 | −1.1 | −58.1 | 41.2 | 71.2 |
| ● 10 | 2.0 | 0.7 | −7.3 | 7.6 | −2.3 | −50.6 | 35.5 | 61.8 |
| Mean ± | 10.4 ± 3.2 | Mean ± | 73.4 ± 5.5 | |||||
| Maximum variation from mean | 6.3 | Maximum variation from mean | 11.6 | |||||
Note: ● = live animal.
Angle between ACSphysical and ACSvirtual, about each axis, for each animal
| Specimen | Angle between ACSphysical and ACSvirtual (about axis in degrees) | ||
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| 1 | −33.4 | 0.7 | 3.8 |
| 2 | −36.2 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| 3 | −35.7 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
| 4 | −35.1 | 1.5 | 0.8 |
| 5 | −38.2 | −1.1 | 1.7 |
| 6 | −36.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| 7 | −38.1 | −0.3 | 1.4 |
| 8 | −42.2 | −1.1 | −1.9 |
| 9 | −39.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| ● 10 | −40.2 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Mean ± | −37.5 ± 2.5 | 0.3 ± 0.9 | 1.2 ± 1.4 |
| Maximum variation from mean | 4.7 | 1.4 | 3.1 |
Note: ● = live animal.
FIGURE 3Three 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