ABSTRACT
Requirements for the reconstruction of traumatic effects are:
The generation of an individual geometrically correct and mechanically adequate body model by which the effect (e.g. the injury pattern) of the special injury dynamics, which has to be examined, can be validated by simulation.
The integrative and time to scale representation of traumatic lesions documented by different data systems.
For a head injury the first requirement was realized using a Finite-element-model (FEM) to reconstruct an individual skull-model from computer tomographic data. To each FEM-cell the realistic material property was added to obtain an object which could be exposed by simulation to the dynamics of the destroying forces. The second requirement is fulfilled by getting a precise superposition of computer tomographic and photogrammetric data by the kind of matching presented in the paper.
