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Firearms, bullets, and wound ballistics: An imaging primer
- Source :
- Injury. 46:1186-1196
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- Based on its intrinsic mass and velocity, a bullet has an upper limit of wounding potential. Actual wound severity is a function of the bullet construction and trajectory, as well as the properties of the tissues traversed. Interpreting physicians must evaluate the bullet trajectory and describe patterns of injury resulting from the effect of energy transfer from the projectile into living tissue. A basic understanding of firearms, projectiles, and wound ballistics can help the interpreting physicians in conceptualizing these injuries and interpreting these cases.
- Subjects :
- Firearms
medicine.medical_specialty
Injury control
Forensic Ballistics
Accident prevention
Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs
Energy transfer
Physics::Medical Physics
Ballistics
Poison control
High-Energy Shock Waves
Quantitative Biology::Cell Behavior
Forensic engineering
medicine
Humans
General Environmental Science
Projectile
business.industry
Angiography
Equipment Design
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Wound ballistics
Surgery
Lead Poisoning
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Wounds, Gunshot
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00201383
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Injury
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6295eeb9ff4a229eee31ea6063589a5f