SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE HEAD AND NECK FROM BIRTH TO FOUR YEARS. FINAL REPORT
Three hundred children from 2 weeks to 48 months of age were measured to determine the size and shape of the head and neck for application to the problem of injuries and death due to head entrapment. Manual mesurements using standard anthropometric measurement techniques were used to collect data on 34 dimensions of the head and neck and general body sizes for the full sample of 300 subjects in four of the age groups to determine the size and shape of critical head contours as well as geometric information describing the locations of anatomical landmarks used in the manual measurements. For manual measurements, 5th, 50th and 95th percentile values are presented in tabular form along with sample means, standard deviations, and sample minimum and maximum values in both English and metric units. In addition, scatter plots of measurement values versus subject age are presented for each measurement variable. Graphic and tabular results of landmark coordinates and contours from steriophotogrammetric data are presented for age group averages as well as for a representative small and large subject from each of the 4 groups.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
2901 Baxter Road
Ann Arbor, MI United States 48109-2150Consumer Product Safety Institute
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Washington,, DC United States 20207 -
Authors:
- Schneider, L W
- Lehman, R J
- Pflug, M A
- Owings, C L
- Publication Date: 1986-1
Media Info
- Pagination: 500 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Children; Head; Injuries; Measurement; Neck; Traffic crashes
- Uncontrolled Terms: Head injuries
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00495303
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: UMTRI 86-2, HS-039 585
- Files: HSL, USDOT
- Created Date: Jul 31 1990 12:00AM