Head impact biomechanics simulations: A forensic tool for reconstructing head injury?

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Motherway, J ^a   Doorly, M C ^a   Curtis, M ^b   Gilchrist, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b State Pathologist's Office   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accident investigation; Computer simulation; Finite element modelling; Skull fracture

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BIOMECHANICS; BONE STRENGTH; CADAVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FROZEN SECTION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVOUS TISSUE; SKULL; SKULL FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKULL; SKULL FRACTURES;

EID: 67349167979     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.072     Document Type: Article

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