Dr. Nightingale's research interests include:

• biomechanical investigations of cervical spine trauma,
• development of cervical spine injury criteria, tensile responses and tensile tolerance of the cervical spine,
• development of computational models (finite element and multi-body dynamics) of cervical spine impact,
• factors influencing injury in airbag deployments,
• pediatric airbag injuries and injury mechanisms,
• factors influencing dynamic buckling of segmented structures subjected to severe loads,
• the 3-D stability of intact and injured spinal motion segments,
• evaluation of bone densitometry techniques for the prediction of lumbar vertebral strength,
• evaluation of the performance of intrapedicular spinal instrumentation,
• evaluation of titanium wire implants for posterior lumbar interbody fusion,
• evaluation of the protective ability of soccer shin-guards, and
• remote palpation of breast lesions using ultrasound radiation force.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Room 273 Hudson Hall
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 5451, +1 919 660 5131
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://biomechanics.pratt.duke.edu/

Teaching (Fall 2008):

• BME 110L.001, INTRO BIOMECHANICS

  Hudson 125, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• BME 110L.01L, INTRO BIOMECHANICS

  CIEMAS 1392, Th 01:15 PM-04:15 PM

• BME 110L.02L, INTRO BIOMECHANICS

  CIEMAS 1392, Th 04:25 PM-07:25 PM

Education:

PhD, Duke University, 1993

MS, Duke University, 1989

BS, Duke University, 1987

Specialties:

Injury and Orthopedic Biomechanics

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Siegel Award for Best Paper, 44th Stapp Car Crash Cconference, 2001
Stapp Award for Best Student Paper, 47th Stapp Car Crash Conference, 2003
Stapp Award for Best Student Paper, 44th Stapp Car Crash Cconference, 2000

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Nightingale, Roger W. and Carol Chancey, V. and Ottaviano, Danielle and Luck, Jason F. and Tran, Laura and Prange, Michael and Myers, Barry S., Flexion and extension structural properties and strengths for male cervical spine segments, Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 40 no. 3 (2007), pp. 535 - 542 [015]  [abs].
2. Palmeri, M.L. and Sharma, A.C. and Bouchard, R.R. and Nightingale, R.W. and Nightingale, K.R., A finite-element method model of soft tissue response to impulsive acoustic radiation force, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control (USA), vol. 52 no. 10 (2005), pp. 1699 - 712  [abs].
3. Nightingale, R.W. and Winkelstein, B.A. and Knaub, K.E. and Richardson, W.J. and Luck, J.F. and Myers, B.S., Comparative strengths and structural properties of the upper and lower cervical spine in flexion and extension, J. Biomech. (UK), vol. 35 no. 6 (2002), pp. 725 - 32 [S0021-9290(02)00037-4]  [abs].
4. Camacho, D.L.A. and Nightingale, R.W. and Myers, B.S., The influence of surface padding properties on head and neck injury risk, Trans. ASME, J. Biomech. Eng. (USA), vol. 123 no. 5 (2001), pp. 432 - 9 [1.1389086]  [abs].
5. Nightingale, K.R. and Soo, M.S. and Nightingale, R.W. and Trahey, G.E., Investigation of real-time remote palpation imaging, Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), vol. 4325 (2001), pp. 113 - 19 [12.428187]  [abs].
6. Nightingale, R.W. and Camacho, D.L. and Armstrong, A.J. and Robinette, J.J. and Myers, B.S., Inertial properties and loading rates affect buckling modes and injury mechanisms in the cervical spine, J. Biomech. (UK), vol. 33 no. 2 (2000), pp. 191 - 7 [S0021-9290(99)00156-6]  [abs].
7. Francisco, Anthony C. and Nightingale, Roger W. and Guilak, Farshid and Glisson, Richard R. and Garrett, William E. Jr., Comparison of soccer shin guards in preventing tibia fracture, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED, vol. 42 (1999), pp. 623 - 624  [abs].
8. Nightingale, Roger W. and McElhaney, James H. and Camacho, Daniel L. and Kleinberger, Michael and Winkelstein, Beth A. and Myers, Barry S., Dynamic responses of the cervical spine: Buckling, end conditions, and tolerance in compressive impacts, Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings no. P-315 (1997), pp. 451 - 471  [abs].
9. Nightingale, Roger W. and Armstrong, Andrew J. and Camacho, Daniel L. and Myers, Barry S., Cervical spine buckling: The effects of vertebral mass and loading rate, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED, vol. 36 (1997), pp. 231 - 232  [abs].
10. Nightingale, R.W. and McElhaney, J.H. and Richardson, W.J. and Myers, B.S., Dynamic responses of the head and cervical spine to axial impact loading, J. Biomech. (UK), vol. 29 no. 3 (1996), pp. 307 - 18 [0021-9290(95)00056-9]  [abs].
11. Nightingale, K.R. and Palmeri, M.L. and Nightingale, R.W. and Trahey, G.E., On the feasibility of remote palpation using acoustic radiation force, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (USA), vol. 110 no. 1 (2001), pp. 625 - 34 [1.1378344]  [abs].