Raul Jean-Sébastien, Deck Caroline, Willinger Rémy, Ludes Bertrand
Institut de Médecine Légale, 11 rue Humann, 67085, Strasbourg, France.
Int J Legal Med. 2008 Sep;122(5):359-66. doi: 10.1007/s00414-008-0248-0. Epub 2008 May 27.
Since the 1960s, predictive human head impact indices have been developed to help the investigation of causation of human head injury. Finite-element models (FEM) can provide interesting tools for the forensic scientists when various human head injury mechanisms need to be evaluated. Human head FEMs are mainly used for car crash evaluations and are not in common use in forensic science. Recent technological progress has resulted in creating more simple tools, which will certainly help to consider the use of FEM in routine forensic practice in the coming years. This paper reviews the main FEMs developed and focuses on the models which can be used as predictive tools. Their possible applications in forensic medicine are discussed.
自20世纪60年代以来，已开发出预测性人体头部撞击指数，以帮助调查人类头部损伤的原因。当需要评估各种人类头部损伤机制时，有限元模型（FEM）可以为法医科学家提供有趣的工具。人体头部有限元模型主要用于汽车碰撞评估，在法医学中并不常用。最近的技术进步带来了更简单的工具，这必将有助于在未来几年的常规法医实践中考虑使用有限元模型。本文回顾了已开发的主要有限元模型，并重点关注可作为预测工具的模型。讨论了它们在法医学中的可能应用。
