Distinguishing poroelasticity and viscoelasticity of brain tissue with time scale.

Acta Biomater

State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, PR China; MIIT Key Laboratory for Multifunctional Lightweight Materials and Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, PR China. Electronic address:

Published: January 2023

Brain tissue is considered to be biphasic, with approximately 80% liquid and 20% solid matrix, thus exhibiting viscoelasticity due to rearrangement of the solid matrix and poroelasticity due to fluid migration within the solid matrix. However, how to distinguish poroelastic and viscoelastic effects in brain tissue remains challenging. In this study, we proposed a method of unconfined compression-isometric hold to measure the force versus time relaxation curves of porcine brain tissue samples with systematically varied sample lengths. Upon scaling the measured relaxation force and relaxation time with different length-dependent physical quantities, we successfully distinguished the poroelasticity and viscoelasticity of the brain tissue. We demonstrated that during isometric hold, viscoelastic relaxation dominated the mechanical behavior of brain tissue in the short-time regime, while poroelastic relaxation dominated in the long-time regime. Furthermore, compared with poroelastic relaxation, viscoelastic relaxation was found to play a more dominant role in the mechanical response of porcine brain tissue. We then evaluated the differences between poroelastic and viscoelastic effects for both porcine and human brain tissue. Because of the draining of pore fluid, the Young's moduli in poroelastic relaxation were lower than those in viscoelastic relaxation; brain tissue changed from incompressible during viscoelastic relaxation to compressible during poroelastic relaxation, resulting in reduced Poisson ratios. This study provides new insights into the physical mechanisms underlying the roles of viscoelasticity and poroelasticity in brain tissue. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Although the poroviscoelastic model had been proposed to characterize brain tissue mechanical behavior, it is difficult to distinguish the poroelastic and viscoelastic behaviors of brain tissue. The study distinguished viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of brain tissue with time scales and then evaluated the differences between poroelastic and viscoelastic effects for both porcine and human brain tissue, which helps to accurate selection of constitutive models suitable for application in certain situations (e.g., pore-dominant and viscoelastic-dominant deformation).

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2022.11.009DOI Listing

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