Assessment of polyurethane spheres as surrogates for military ballistic head injury

SYNBONE® spheres were impacted with 7.62 × 39 mm mild steel core ammunition at a mean impact velocity of 654 m/s, SD 7 m/s, to simulate engagement distances of around 50–100 m. The wounds and fracture patterns were assessed by two forensic pathologists familiar with military cranial injury. The over...

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Autores principales: Mahoney, Peter, Carr, Debra, Hunt, Nicholas, Delaney, Russ J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6342876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29600323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-018-1832-6
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description SYNBONE® spheres were impacted with 7.62 × 39 mm mild steel core ammunition at a mean impact velocity of 654 m/s, SD 7 m/s, to simulate engagement distances of around 50–100 m. The wounds and fracture patterns were assessed by two forensic pathologists familiar with military cranial injury. The overall fracture pattern was assessed as being too comminuted when compared with actual injury. This suggests the SYNBONE® spheres have less utility for simulating military injury than other purposes described in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-63428762019-02-15 Assessment of polyurethane spheres as surrogates for military ballistic head injury Mahoney, Peter Carr, Debra Hunt, Nicholas Delaney, Russ J Int J Legal Med Original Article SYNBONE® spheres were impacted with 7.62 × 39 mm mild steel core ammunition at a mean impact velocity of 654 m/s, SD 7 m/s, to simulate engagement distances of around 50–100 m. The wounds and fracture patterns were assessed by two forensic pathologists familiar with military cranial injury. The overall fracture pattern was assessed as being too comminuted when compared with actual injury. This suggests the SYNBONE® spheres have less utility for simulating military injury than other purposes described in the literature. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-03-29 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6342876/ /pubmed/29600323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-018-1832-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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