Abstract #0505

A Weighted Head Accelerator Mechanism (WHAM) for imaging brain tissue deformation during mild head rotation using a tagged MRI sequence

Ronald G Pratt¹, Greg Lee¹, Aaron S McAllister², Greg Myer³, Thomas Klein⁴, Christopher M Ireland^1,5, Wolfgang Loew¹, Matt Lanier¹, and Charles Dumoulin¹

¹Imaging Research Center/Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, Cincinnati, OH, United States, ²Radiology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States, ³Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States, ⁴Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States, ⁵Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States

A new research tool, the Weighted Head Accelerator Mechanism (WHAM), is described. The WHAM, used together with a custom MRI sequence, permits in depth investigations into brain biomechanics during mild head rotations and the evaluation of mild traumatic brain injury mitigating strategies by directly evaluating their effects on brain biomechanics in vivo.

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