Mechanisms of brain impact injuries and their prediction: A review

Trauma

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 327-349

  Post, Andrew ^a   Hoshizaki, T Blaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

brain injury mechanism; concussion; injury biomechanics; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRITERION VARIABLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; ROTATION; SKULL MALFORMATION; STRENGTH; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84867025195     PISSN: 14604086     EISSN: 14770350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460408612446573     Document Type: Review

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