In silico investigation of intracranial blast mitigation with relevance to military traumatic brain injury

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 20703-20708

  Nyein, Michelle K ^a   Jason, Amanda M ^a   Yu, Li ^a   Pita, Claudio M ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^b   Moore, David F ^c   Radovitzky, Raul A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models; Personal protection equipment

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED COMBAT HELMET; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN PROTECTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MILITARY MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 78650569546     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014786107     Document Type: Article

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