Non-invasive brain injury evaluation
A brain injury could lead to bleeding and swelling that deforms the brain and heightens the intracranial pressure. These changes could further harm the brain and causes irreversible damages in the brain. Therefore a thorough investigation is needed to make a good diagnose and a suitable treatment strategy.
The idea is to extract available information from the first CT or MRI examination.
A patient specific model is generated using that information and simulates the deformation in the brain as well as the intracranial pressure. This method is applicable to hematoma, edema and tumor.
The figures below depict a preliminary result of the method. The left figure shows a cross-section of the patient brain with bleeding from the CT scan. The right figure shows the simulated deformation in color scale. The scale goes from blue (low deformation) to red (high deformation).
Collaboration
KTH Innovation
Flemingsberg Science