Measurement of the effect of an enclosed volume of air on the compressibility of a simulated cranial cavity

Authors :: E. A. Bunt
Smoleniec J
Allen Kl
Pastoll G
Source :: Medicalbiological engineering. 14(3)
Publication Year :: 1976
Abstract: The ability of an air sac placed in the intrancranial fluid spaces to absorb pressure pulses across the brain has been demonstrated by means of a mechanical model of the cranial cavity.

Subjects :: Materials science
Intracranial Pressure
Air
General Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Anatomy
Human physiology
medicine.disease
Models, Biological
Computer Science Applications
Hydrocephalus
medicine.anatomical_structure
Volume (thermodynamics)
Cranial cavity
medicine
Compressibility
Humans
Intracranial pressure

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