Response of individual thoracolumbar spine ligaments under high-rate deformation

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Iwaskiw, Alexander S ^a   Armiger, Robert S ^a   Ott, Kyle A ^a   Wickwire, Alexis C ^a   Merkle, Andrew C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High rate; Ligament; Optical strain measurement; Spine; Tensile load; Thoracolumbar; Under Body Blast

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; BONE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIGAMENTS; TENSILE TESTING; TESTING;

HIGH RATE; OPTICAL STRAIN MEASUREMENT; SPINE; TENSILE LOADS; THORACOLUMBAR; UNDER-BODY BLASTS;

STRAIN;

ANTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BONE STRESS; CERVICAL SPINE; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE LIGAMENT;

EID: 84888630376     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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