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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Stapp Car Crash J. 2010 Nov;54:227–257. doi: 10.4271/2010-22-0012

TABLE 6.

Peak deflection rates (m/s) obtained from posterolateral oblique measurement vectors

Test Location Vector Angle (°)
140 135 130 125 120 115 110 105 100 95 90
D-1 Xyphoid 17.8 18.3 17.0 15.3 13.4 10.7 7.6 8.7 10.4 11.7 12.3
Axilla 5.0 4.5 3.9 5.0 6.8 8.4 9.5 10.0 9.2 6.8 5.6
D-2 Rib 10 5.5 5.0 4.6 4.4 4.7 5.2 5.8 6.3 6.9 7.3 7.6
Xyphoid 5.0 6.3 7.7 9.3 10.6 12.0 13.1 14.1 14.6 14.6 14.1
D-3 Rib 10 5.2 5.6 5.7 5.6 5.1 4.7 4.7 4.4 3.7 5.1 7.4
Xyphoid 4.0 4.2 4.5 4.7 4.8 5.1 6.1 7.3 8.2 8.1 7.3
D-4 Rib 10 5.0 5.6 5.5 5.2 5.0 4.6 4.4 4.5 4.7 4.9 4.7
Xyphoid 9.3 8.3 6.5 6.7 7.2 7.8 10.2 12.6 14.6 16.0 16.7
S-1 Xyphoid 5.7 5.9 6.6 7.6 8.7 8.7 7.2 4.7 2.5 0.9 1.1
S-2 Xyphoid 9.2 12.2 12.7 10.1 7.2 6.0 5.6 4.3 5.0 5.2 4.5
S-3 Xyphoid 6.3 7.1 7.9 7.0 4.2 3.9 3.6 3.5 3.1 2.3 1.7
S-4 Xyphoid 6.9 7.6 7.5 7.0 6.2 6.1 5.3 3.0 1.4 1.5 1.6
S-5 Xyphoid 1.9 2.2 2.6 2.9 3.4 3.7 3.6 3.2 3.1 2.8 2.1
S-6 Xyphoid 4.9 5.1 5.2 5.2 5.1 4.8 4.3 4.1 3.5 2.8 1.9