Abstract
The most common manner of reproducing the effects of energised fragments penetrating human tissues is to use a physical model as a tissue simulant. Such physical models encompass simulants including animal based simulants such as gelatin, animal physical models and in more limited circumstances post mortem human subjects (PMHS). No physical model can currently accurately reproduce all of the complex projectile and tissue variables that occur within live human tissues. Therefore individual models attempt to accurately reproduce a limited number of variables, with data produced from different types of model often being used synergistically to generate the bigger picture. For example a freshly killed animal surrogate may closely resemble the tissue properties of a live human but may not be able to reproduce the complex anatomy if that is required.
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Breeze, J., Carr, D.J. (2016). Physical Models: Tissue Simulants. In: Bull, A., Clasper, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Blast Injury Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21867-0_11
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