A numerical study of the role of the tragus in the big brown bat

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3701-3712

  Müller, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION; X RAYS;

BOOTSTRAP VALIDATION PARADIGM; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; TRAGUS ROTATION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; DIGITAL COMPUTER; EXTERNAL EAR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR, EXTERNAL; ECHOLOCATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11144277826     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1815133     Document Type: Article

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