Lightweight low-profile nine-accelerometer package to obtain head angular accelerations in short-duration impacts

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1347-1354

  Yoganandan, N ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Pintar, F A ^a   King Liu, Y ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b University of Northern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular acceleration; Brain injury; Head trauma; Nine accelerometer package

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; DATA REDUCTION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ANGULAR ACCELERATION; BRAIN INJURY; HEAD TRAUMA; NINE-ACCELEROMETER PACKAGE;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ALUMINUM;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; DATA ANALYSIS; HEAD INJURY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; CADAVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAD; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33646075480     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2005.03.016     Document Type: Article

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