Kinematics of head movement in simulated low velocity rear-end impacts

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1011-1018

  Hernández, Ivonne A ^a   Fyfe, Ken R ^a   Heo, Giseon ^a   Major, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angular head displacement; Head angular acceleration; Kinematics of head movement; Linear head acceleration; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; BIOMECHANICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANGULAR HEAD DISPLACEMENT; HEAD ANGULAR ACCELERATION; KINEMATICS OF HEAD MOVEMENT; LINEAR HEAD ACCELERATION; WHIPLASH;

KINEMATICS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHAIR; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 27744529840     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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