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Why Most Traumatic Brain Injuries are Not Caused by Linear Acceleration but Skull Fractures are

Injury statistics have found the most common accident situation to be an oblique impact. An oblique impact will give rise to both linear and rotational head kinematics. The human brain is most sensitive to rotational motion. The bulk modulus of brain tissue is roughly five to six orders of magnitude...

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Autor principal: Kleiven, Svein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25022321
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2013.00015