Collagen fibre orientation in human bridging veins.

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
Markos KapeliotisBart Depreitere

Abstract

Bridging veins (BVs) drain the blood from the cerebral cortex into dural sinuses. BVs have one end attached to the brain and the other to the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), which is attached to the skull. Relative movement between these two structures can cause BV to rupture producing acute subdural haematoma, a head injury with a mortality rate between 30 and 90%. A clear understanding of the BVs microstructure is required to increase the biofidelity of BV models when simulating head impacts. Twelve fresh BV samples draining in the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) from a single human cadaver were cut open along their length and placed on an inverted multiphoton microscope. To ensure that the BVs were aligned with the axial direction an in-house built, uniaxial tension set-up was used. Two scans were performed per sample. Before the first scan, a minor displacement was applied to align the tissue; then, a second scan was taken applying 50% strain. Each BV was scanned for a length of 5 mm starting from the drainage site into the SSS. Imaging was performed on a Zeiss LSM780 microscope with an 25[Formula: see text] water immersion objective (NA 0.8), coupled to a tunable MaiTai DS (Spectraphysics) pulsed laser with the wavelength set...Continue Reading

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