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Digital Elderly Human Body Modeling Part I : Standard Anthropometry and Exterior/Interior Geometries  

Han, Ji-Won (Department of Mechanical and System Design Engineering, Hongik University)
Choi, Hyung-Yun (Department of Mechanical and System Design Engineering, Hongik University)
Yoon, Kyong-Han (Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute)
Park, Yo-Han (Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.17, no.1, 2009 , pp. 96-104 More about this Journal
Abstract
An anatomically detailed elderly human body model is under development. Using the anthropometric database of domestic nation-wide size survey, SizeKorea, a standard size and shape of 50th %tile elderly was constructed. Through the local recruitment process, a male volunteer with 71 years of age, 163cm of height and 63kg of weight has been selected. The exterior (skin) and interior (skeleton and organ) geometries were acquired from whole body 3D laser scan and various medical images such as CT, X-ray, and Ultrasonic of the volunteer. A particular attention has been paid into the combining process of exterior and interior geometries especially for joint articulation positions since they were measured at different postures (sitting vs. supine). A whole ribcage of PMHS which possessed similar anthropometry and age of standard 50th %tile elderly was prepared and dissected for the precise gauge of cortical rib bone thickness distributions. After completing the morphological construction of elderly human body, the finite element modeling will be processed by meshing elements and assigning mechanical properties to various biological tissues which reflect the aging effect.
Keywords
Human body model; SizeKorea; Whole body 3D laser scan; CT scan; Finite element human body model;
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