Neck injury tolerance under inertial loads in side impacts

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 326-333

  McIntosh, Andrew S ^a   Kallieris, Dimitrios ^b   Frechede, Bertrand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Human tolerance; Neck injury; Side impact

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; IMPACT TESTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HUMAN TOLERANCE; NECK INJURY; SIDE IMPACT;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HEAD; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRA;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; HEAD; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33845207708     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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