Perforation of fragment simulating projectiles into goat skin and muscle
Perforation of fragment simulating projectiles into goat skin and muscle
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10.1136/jramc-2013-000065
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2013-06-01
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Hepper, A. E.
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Breeze, Johno;James, G. R.;Hepper, A. E.
Introduction Ballistic gelatin is the most common tissue simulant used to reproduce the penetration of projectiles into muscle but published data to support its use are primarily based on bullets, despite explosive fragments being the most common cause of injury to soldiers on current operational deployments. Published ballistic tests using animal and artificial skin and muscle tissue surrogates also lack standardisation in methodology such that limited comparisons with that of human tissues can currently be made.Method Three masses of cylindrical NATO standardised fragment simulating projectiles (FSPs) were fired at 20% ballistic gelatin and the hind thighs of a killed goat. Threshold (V-th) and V-50 velocities required for skin perforation and depth of penetration (DoP) into muscle were compared with gelatin. The intercept and gradient of the linear regression lines for DoP versus velocity were compared between gelatin and goat with significance defined as p