Head orientation affects the intracranial pressure response resulting from shock wave loading in the rat

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2595-2602

  Dal Cengio Leonardi, Alessandra ^a,b   Keane, Nickolas J ^a   Bir, Cynthia A ^a   Ryan, Anne G ^c   Xu, Liaosa ^c   VandeVord, Pamela J ^a,b  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blast; Intracranial pressure; Orientation; Skull flexure; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL RESPONSE; BLAST; BLAST WAVES; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CRITICAL STRESS; FLEXURE MECHANISM; INJURY MECHANISMS; INTRA-CRANIAL PRESSURE; MILITARY PERSONNELS; NEUROLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS; PEAK PRESSURE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RATE OF PRESSURE; SHOCK FRONTS; SHOCK-WAVE LOADING; SKULL FLEXURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; MECHANISMS; RATS;

SHOCK WAVES;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MATURATION; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SHOCK WAVE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BLAST INJURIES; BODY SIZE; BRAIN INJURIES; HEAD; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKULL;

EID: 84866763364     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.08.024     Document Type: Article

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