Characterizing the Biomechanical Response of Liver

Motor vehicle collisions can result in life threatening liver injuries. Dummies are utilized to study injury in motor vehicle collisions; however, no crash test dummies are currently equipped to represent individual solid organs. This has increased the use of finite element models to help reduce t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santago II, Anthony Charles
Other Authors: Biomedical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32768
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05142010-101940/