Surrogate Head Forms for the Evaluation of Head Injury Risk

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dc.contributor.authorMacAlister, Annaen
dc.date2013-04-03en
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-19T19:21:06Zen
dc.date.available2013-09-19T19:21:06Zen
dc.date.issued2013-09-19en
dc.description.abstractThis paper summarizes the use of surrogate head forms in biomechanical research pertaining to head injury and, more specifically, mild traumatic brain injury. Because cadavers are limited and controlled studies of brain injury using live human subjects would be unethical, surrogate head forms are used to study the response of the human head to impact. Different head forms have been developed and optimized for different purposes. The Hybrid III 50th percentile male crash test dummy was developed for use in vehicle crash testing and instrumented in such a way as to provide HIC values in frontal crash tests. The NOCSAE head form is used by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment to be used in the certification of commercially produced athletic helmets. The Facial and Ocular Countermeasure Safety (FOCUS) head form was developed jointly by the Virgina Tech-Wake Forest Center for Injury Biomechanics, Robert A. Denton, Inc., and the United States Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory as a tool to aid in the development and evaluation of safety devices designed to prevent face and eye injuries. The vast majority of biomechanical research of head injury conducted using surrogate anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) utilized one of these three head forms.en
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dc.identifier.citationMacAlister A, "Surrogate Head Forms for the Evaluation of Head Injury Risk," Brain Injuries and Biomechanics Symposium, Washington DC, April 3, 2013.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/23818en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBrain Injuries and Biomechanics Symposiumen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMild traumatic brain injuryen
dc.subjectheaden
dc.subjecthead formen
dc.subjectbrain injuryen
dc.titleSurrogate Head Forms for the Evaluation of Head Injury Risken
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
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