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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Blunt chest trauma"”.
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Feasibility Study of Low Dose Chest CT for Initial Evaluation of Blunt Chest Trauma Patient
… now modality of choice for evaluation of the polytrauma patients including thoracic injury. However, the routine use of CT results in rapid increase of the CT radiation dose in blunt chest trauma evaluation. Therefore, according to the ALARA (as low as reasonable achievable) principle, radiation …
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The Molecular and Cellular Response to Pulmonary Contusion
Multi-system trauma is a significant source of patient morbidity and mortality, accounting for 140,000 deaths annually. Thoracic injuries occur in the majority of blunt trauma patients and are present in up to 75% of all trauma-related deaths. Pulmonary contusion is a common and potentially lethal …
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The Development of Pulmonary Contusion Finite Element Model Metrics from Real World Simulations
… vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the leading cause of blunt chest trauma, and pulmonary contusion (PC) is a common injury following this type of insult. Over 38% of the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 3+ thoracic injuries were identified as some form of PC in a recent National Automotive Sampling System …
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A Study of Imaging Techniques of 3-Dimennsional CT Diagnosis for Rib Fractures
… is a common disease occurring in patients with blunt chest trauma and can cause variable complications. However, the sensitivity of simple chest X-ray for the diagnosis of rib fracture is not high and the use of axial CT images of multi-detector computed tomography make us to spend so much time …
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Development of a Finite Element Based Injury Metric for Pulmonary Contusion
… soft tissue injury sustained as a result of blunt chest trauma. The goal of this dissertation research is to mitigate this commonly-sustained and potentially life threatening injury. We have taken a computational approach to solving this problem by developing a predictive injury metric for PC …