The influence of primary blast wave on the posterior part of the eyeball

With the increasing application of improvised explosive devices, the ratio of traumatic ocular injury significantly increased in the past decades, which has become the fourth most happened injury to military deployment. The ocular injury treatment is costly and has been less effective, which influences the military service and life experience of the soldiers. With years of research on the traumatic ocular injury through experiment or computational simulations, the primary blast wave related overpressure was found to induce macular damage, globe rupture. While the influence of the primary blast wave on the posterior part of the eyeball was poorly understood, such as the optic nerve. In this work, we developed a three-dimensional computation model, which included lamina cribrosa (LC), optic nerve and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The strain evaluated in optic nerve was found to exceed neural tissue's physiological loading range, which might explain the vision loss after the blast.