Force and acceleration corridors from lateral head impact

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 368-373

  Yoganandan, Narayan ^a,b   Zhang, Jiangyue ^a   Pintar, Frank A ^a  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Force; Injury criteria; Side impact; Skull fracture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL FRACTURES;

EID: 9144244407     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580490510336     Document Type: Article

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