An animal-to-human scaling law for blast-induced traumatic brain injury risk assessment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 15310-15315

  Jean, Aurélie ^a   Nyein, Michelle K ^a   Zheng, James Q ^b   Moore, David F ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a,c   Radovitzky, Raúl ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Program Executive Office Soldier   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury risk criteria; Interspecies scaling; TBI; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; THORAX; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLAST INJURY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPLICATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MOUSE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; BLAST INJURIES; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN INJURIES; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; RABBITS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84908441185     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415743111     Document Type: Article

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