A geometrically nonlinear finite-element model of the cat eardrum

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2859-2868

  Ladak, Hanif M ^a,b   Funnell, W Robert J ^c   Decraemer, Willem F ^d   Dirckx, Joris J J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

CAT EARDRUM; CLINICAL TYMPANOMETRY; GEOMETRIC NONLINEARITY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAT; EARDRUM; EXPERIMENTATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; GEOMETRY; HYPERBARISM; MALLEUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT; MECHANICAL DISPLACEMENT; MECHANICS; MEMBRANE; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARS TENSA; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THICKNESS; TYMPANOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 33646452134     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2188370     Document Type: Article

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