In order to gain a better knowledge of human tolerances, the testing of cadavers is a favoured method. When such experiments are made, a method is already used, which allows the detection of cerebral injuries. However, some insufficiencies exist in the database available references, which hinder the determination of the severity of the injuries which can be observed on the brain of cadavers, especially when these injuries are not obviously fatal (ais 3-4). an accidentological and experimental research using ct scan has been conducted with the main following objectives: - the collecting of traumatic brain injuries data (number, position and extension of injuries) which correspond to neurological symptoms observed following head trauma in real-world accidents; - the enabling of these collected data to be used for the interpretation of experimental brain injuries on cadavers. 268 cases of scanned victims with head trauma were collected and analyzed. In each case the scan images and the clinical symptoms were recorded. Such a sample constitutes a good reference to determine the ais corresponding to fatal or non-fatal experimental brain injuries.
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