INVESTIGATING BRAIN TISSUE MECHANICAL PROPERTY

DURING ISCHEMIC BRAIN SWELLING USING FEA

NAME : ZAINUL AZRAN BIN ZAKARIA

ID : MA14106
SUPERVISOR : MOHD JAMIL MOHAMED MOKHTARUDIN

INTRODUCTION
• Stroke is ranked as the second major cause of
death worldwide and may cause lifelong
disabilities to the victims.
OBJECTIVE
1. To Investigating brain tissue mechanical property during ischemic brain swelling
using finite element.
2. To compare the finite element analysis with MRI data.

Stroke Types PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Ischaemic Haemorrhagic

• Effect of stroke : brain swelling

• Brain swelling increases pressure inside the
skull, that is known as intracranial pressure
(ICP). It can prevent blood from flowing to
brain.
• This project is about 3D finite element analysis
of cerebral tissue swelling occurrence in brain
ischaemia-reperfusion injury.
• The model is solve on 3D geometry developed
from MRI images and then implemented using
Elmer and output is visualised using Paraview.

METHODOLOGY

START

IMAGE
PROCESSING

3D BRAIN
GEOMETRY

No CHECK
FEA SETTINGS
SETTING

Yes

COMPARE No
VARY ET, v
WITH MRI
DATA

Yes

WRITING
THESIS