A non-linear circuit for simulating OHC of the cochlea

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 591-601

  Stasiunas, Antanas ^a   Verikas, Antanas ^a,c   Kemesis, Povilas ^a   Bacauskiene, Marija ^a   Miliauskas, Rimvydas ^b   Stasiuniene, Natalija ^b   Malmqvist, Kerstin ^c  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^c HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Filtering circuits with feedback; Hair cells; Inner ear

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COCHLEA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA DUCT; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFERENT NERVE; FILTRATION; HAIR CELL; INNER EAR; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 0038094491     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(03)00071-7     Document Type: Article

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