The applicability of a computer model for predicting head injury incurred during actual motor vehicle collisions

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-103

  Moran, Stephan G ^a,b   Key, Jason S ^b   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^a,b   Keeley, Jason W ^c   Davidson, James S ^b,c   Rue III, Loring W ^a,b  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

CIREN; Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network; Crashworthiness; Head injury; Head injury criterion; HIC; MADYMO; Modeling; Motor vehicle collision; MVC; Vehicle design

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; FACTUAL DATABASE; INJURY SCALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4043135803     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000082152.28929.62     Document Type: Article

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