Volume displacement of the gerbil eardrum pars flaccida as a function of middle ear pressure

Hearing Research

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 35-46

  Dirckx, J J J ^a   Decraemer, W F ^a   Von Unge, M ^b   Larsson, Ch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Middle ear; Pars fiaccida; Pressure; Tympanic membrane; Tympanometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GERBIL; HYSTERESIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ANIMALS; BAROTRAUMA; EAR, MIDDLE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICS; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0031921918     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00025-2     Document Type: Article

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