Blast Injuries

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case of frontal neuropsychological and neuroimaging signs following multiple primary-blast exposure. 
  • A methodology for assessing blast protection in explosive ordnance disposal bomb suits. 
  • Attenuation of blast pressure behind ballistic protective vests. 
  • Blast and ballistic trajectories in combat casualties: a preliminary analysis using a cartesian positioning system with MDCT. 
  • Blast injury research: modeling injury effects of landmines, bullets, and bombs. 
  • Brain injuries from blast. 
  • Brain injury risk from primary blast. 
  • Cartesian positioning system for localization of blast and ballistic fragments: a phantom-based pilot study. 
  • Characteristics of ballistic and blast injuries. 
  • Cognitive sequelae of blast-related versus other mechanisms of brain trauma. 
  • Concomitant cranial and ocular combat injuries during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
  • Detecting traumatic brain injury among veterans of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. 
  • Development of a finite element model for blast brain injury and the effects of CSF cavitation. 
  • Dexamethasone potentiates in vitro blood-brain barrier recovery after primary blast injury by glucocorticoid receptor-mediated upregulation of ZO-1 tight junction protein. 
  • Diffusion tensor imaging reveals white matter injury in a rat model of repetitive blast-induced traumatic brain injury. 
  • Distribution of civilian and military maxillofacial surgical procedures performed in an Air Force theatre hospital: implications for training and readiness. 
  • Human Injury Criteria for Underwater Blasts. 
  • Mass-casualty victim "surge" management. Preparing for bombings and blast-related injuries with possibility of hazardous materials exposure. 
  • Mesh considerations for finite element blast modelling in biomechanics. 
  • Plastic surgery in the six days war in Jerusalem. 
  • Post-traumatic stress after terrorist attack: psychological reactions following the US embassy bombing in Nairobi: Naturalistic study. 
  • Posttraumatic stress among young children after the death of a friend or acquaintance in a terrorist bombing. 
  • Primary blast survival and injury risk assessment for repeated blast exposures. 
  • Repeated mild blast exposure in young adult rats results in dynamic and persistent microstructural changes in the brain. 
  • Repeated primary blast injury causes delayed recovery, but not additive disruption, in an in vitro blood-brain barrier model. 
  • Review: managing posttraumatic stress disorder in combat veterans with comorbid traumatic brain injury. 
  • Sixty-four slice multidetector computed tomographic angiography in the evaluation of vascular trauma. 
  • Sound induced vertigo: superior canal dehiscence resulting from blast exposure. 
  • Survival risk assessment for primary blast exposures to the head. 
  • The evaluation of casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom on return to the continental United States from March to June 2003. 
  • The mechanics of traumatic brain injury: a review of what we know and what we need to know for reducing its societal burden. 
  • The role of physicians in conflicts and humanitarian crises. Case studies from the field missions of Physicians for Human Rights, 1988 to 1993. 
  • The use of prosthetic grafts in complex military vascular trauma: a limb salvage strategy for patients with severely limited autologous conduit. 
  • Time Course and Size of Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in a Mouse Model of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Traumatic pseudoaneurysms of the head and neck: early endovascular intervention. 
  • Underwater blast injury: a review of standards. 
  • Vestibular consequences of mild traumatic brain injury and blast exposure: a review. 
  • White matter compromise in veterans exposed to primary blast forces. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Johnson, G. Allan, Charles E. Putman University Professor of Radiology, Physics