An atlas of the heterogeneous viscoelastic brain with local power-law attenuation synthesised using Prony-series
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2023-09-13Author
Morrison, Oisín
Destrade, Michel
Tripathi, Bharat B.
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Morrison, Oisín, Destrade, Michel, & Tripathi, Bharat B. (2023). An atlas of the heterogeneous viscoelastic brain with local power-law attenuation synthesised using Prony-series. Acta Biomaterialia, 169, 66-87. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2023.07.040
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This review addresses the acute need to acknowledge the mechanical heterogeneity of brain matter and to accurately calibrate its local viscoelastic material properties accordingly. Specifically, it is important to compile the existing and disparate literature on attenuation power-laws and dispersion to make progress in wave physics of brain matter, a field of research that has the potential to explain the mechanisms at
play in diffuse axonal injury and mild traumatic brain injury in general. Currently, viscous effects in the brain are modelled using Prony-series, i.e., a sum of decaying exponentials at different relaxation times.
Here we collect and synthesise the Prony-series coefficients appearing in the literature for twelve regions: brainstem, basal ganglia, cerebellum, corona radiata, corpus callosum, cortex, dentate gyrus, hippocampus, thalamus, grey matter, white matter, homogeneous brain, and for eight different mammals: pig, rat, human, mouse, cow, sheep, monkey and dog. Using this data, we compute the fractional-exponent attenuation power-laws for different tissues of the brain, the corresponding dispersion laws resulting from causality, and the averaged Prony-series coefficients.