Evaluating eye injury risk of airsoft pellet guns by parametric risk functions

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 42, Issue , 2006, Pages 7-12

  Kennedy, Eric A ^a   Ng, Tracy P ^a   Duma, Stefan M ^a  

^a Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Airsoft; Eye; Globe rupture; Gun; Injury; Pellet

Indexed keywords

AIRSOFT; EYE; GLOBE RUPTURE; GUN; INJURY; PELLET;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VISION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ABRASION; ACCURACY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVALUATION; EYE INJURY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; LENS LUXATION; MASS; NONHUMAN; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RETINA INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE; SWINE; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; EYE INJURIES; FIREARMS; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33745196468     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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