title: Development of a 10-year-old paediatric thorax finite element model validated against cardiopulmonary resuscitation data.
abstract: Thoracic injury in the paediatric population is a relatively common cause of severe injury and has an accompanying high mortality rate. However, no anatomically accurate, complex paediatric chest finite element (FE) component model is available for a 10-year old in the published literature. In this study, a 10-year-old thorax FE model was developed based on internal and external geometries segmented from medical images. The model was then validated against published data measured during cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed on paediatric subjects.
authors.affiliation: a The State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, Hunan University , ChangSha , Hunan , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Binhui
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Libo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Haojie
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Stan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marek
authors.forename: King H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D002648:Child; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000209:etiology; D013909:Thorax / Q000033:anatomy & histology*