Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 700-709 , July 2008

Dynamic 3D FE modelling of the human temporomandibular joint during whiplash

  • A. Pérez del Palomar

      Affiliations

    • Group of Structural Mechanics and Materials Modelling, Aragon Institute of Engineering Research I3A, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    • CIBER on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Aragon Institute of Health (ICS), Spain
    • ,
  • M. Doblaré

      Affiliations

    • Group of Structural Mechanics and Materials Modelling, Aragon Institute of Engineering Research I3A, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    • CIBER on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Aragon Institute of Health (ICS), Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 1 December 2006 ,Revised 19 July 2007 ,Accepted 20 July 2007.

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PII: S1350-4533(07)00147-6

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.07.009

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 700-709 , July 2008

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