Blast Badge (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Blast Badge

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Blast exposure disrupts the nanostructure of the blast injury dosimeter, resulting in clear changes in color. The color changes may be calibrated to denote the severity of blast exposure in relation to thresholds for blast-related traumatic brain injury.

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Douglas Smith, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, NeuroImage.

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