A great public utility

In Sweden there are around 50 000 yearly cases of trauma to the head and neck and the majority include the central and peripheral nervous systems. Today’s standard for diagnosing and treating head and neck trauma patients is based on a clinical examination together with imaging systems such as Computed Tomography, CT, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI.

However, these systems are only able to render information about the patient’s current condition, i.e. post trauma, and not of the mechanism which caused the injury at the time of injury. This project will generate at database of biomechanic simulations visualizing the forces and deformations that the biological tissues experience during the accident. Tissues with high loads will be shown as areas with increased risk of injury. This tool will be valuable to many public functions, among other things one can: