The importance of craniofacial sutures in biomechanical finite element models of the domestic pig

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Bright, Jen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIAL VAULT; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRITERION VARIABLE; EX VIVO STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXILLA; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT; ROSTRUM; SKULL; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWINE; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; VALIDITY; ZYGOMA ARCH; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CRANIAL SUTURES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUS SCROFA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857407209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031769     Document Type: Article

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