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However, human studies have limitations in data collection that can only be addressed by animal models. To utilize a large animal model in this work, researchers developed an approach for scaling blast exposure data from animal to human-equivalent loading. For this study, energy interacting with the brain tissue was selected as a translation metric because of the hypothesized association between observed neurological changes and energy transmitted through the skull. This article describes the methodology used to derive an energy-based transfer function capable of serving as a global correspondence rule for primary blast injury exposure, allowing researchers to derive human-appropriate thresholds from animal data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods and Materials<\/jats:title><jats:p>To generate data for the development of the transfer functions, three disarticulated cadaveric Yucatan minipigs and three postmortem human surrogate heads were exposed to blast overpressure using a large bore, compressed-gas shock tube. Pressure gauges in the free field, on the skull surface, and pressure probes within the brain cavity filled with Sylgard silicone gel recorded the pressure propagation through the skull of each specimen. The frequency components of the freefield and brain cavity measurements from the pig and human surrogates were interrogated in the frequency domain. Doing so quantifies the differences in the amount of energy, in each frequency band, transmitted through both the porcine and the human skull, and the transfer function was calculated to quantify those differences.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Nonlinear energy transmission was observed for both the porcine and human skulls, indicating that linear scaling would not be appropriate for developing porcine to human transfer functions. This study demonstrated similar responses between species with little to no attenuation at frequencies below 30\u2009Hz. The phase of the pressure transmission to the brain is also similar for both species up to approximately 10\u2009kHz. There were two notable differences between the porcine and human surrogates. First, in the 40-100\u2009Hz range, human subjects have approximately 8\u2009dB more pressure transmitted through the skull relative to porcine subjects. Second, in the 1-10\u2009kHz range, human subjects have up to 10\u2009dB more pressure transmitted into the brain (10\u2009dB more attenuation) relative to the porcine subjects.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The fundamental goal of this study was to develop pig-to-human transfer functions to allow researchers to interpret data collected from large animal studies and aid in deriving risk functions for repeated blast exposures. Similarities in porcine and human brain physiology make the minipig experimental model an excellent candidate for blast research. However, differences in the skull geometry have historically made the interpretation of animal data difficult for the purposes of characterizing potential neurological risk in humans. Human equivalent loading conditions are critical so that the thresholds are not over- or underpredicted due to differences in porcine skull geometry. 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