Biophysical injury mechanisms in electrical shock trauma

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 2000, 2000, Pages 477-509

  Lee, Raphael C ^a   Zhang, Dajun ^a   Hannig, Jurgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn; Denaturation; Electrical injury; Electroporation; Membrane; Tissue

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC BURN; ELECTRIC INJURY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; HUMAN; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; BURNS, ELECTRIC; ELECTRIC INJURIES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; LIGHTNING INJURIES; MICROWAVES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 0034575127     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.2.1.477     Document Type: Article

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