CT-based ballistic wound path identification and trajectory analysis in anatomic ballistic phantoms

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 923-929

  Folio, Les R ^a   Fischer, Tatjana V ^b   Shogan, Paul J ^c   Frew, Michael I ^c   Kang, Pil S ^c   Bunger, Rolf ^a   Provenzale, James M ^d  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BALLISTICS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GUNSHOT INJURY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LEG; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 79952301914     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100534     Document Type: Review

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