Exploring the living cochlea using confocal microscopy

Audiology and Neuro-Otology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-30

  Ulfendahl, Mats ^a,c   Boutet De Monvel, Jacques ^a,b   Le Calvez, Sophie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Confocal microscopy; Deconvolution; Organ of Corti

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCHLEA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORTI ORGAN; GUINEA PIG; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; INNER EAR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; GUINEA PIGS; HEARING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; ORGAN OF CORTI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036204224     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000046859     Document Type: Review

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