An approach for the estimation of contact force on a human head induced by a foreign-object impact

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 956-958

  Gong, Shi Wei ^a   Lee, Heow Pueh ^a,b   Lu, Chun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Analytical modeling; Contact force; Head injury; Impact biomechanics; Piezoelectric biosensor

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOSENSORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

ANALYTICAL MODELING; CONTACT FORCES; HEAD INJURY; IMPACT BIOMECHANICS; PIEZOELECTRIC BIOSENSORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORCE; HEAD INJURY; MATERIALS; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKULL; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34247359183     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.889158     Document Type: Article

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