Pressure measurements in the spinal canal of post-mortem human subjects during rear-end impact and correlation of results to the neck injury criterion

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-260

  Eichberger, Arno ^a   Darok, Mario ^b   Steffan, Hermann ^a   Leinzinger, Peter E ^b   Boström, Ola ^c   Svensson, Mats Y ^d  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c AUTOLIV RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVER SIMULATORS; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

NECK INJURY; REAR-END IMPACT;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRAL CANAL; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; HUMANS; SPINAL CANAL; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 0034144707     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(99)00097-4     Document Type: Article

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