Basilar membrane tension calculations for the gerbil cochlea

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 994-1002

  Naidu, Ram C ^a,b   Mountain, David C ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; TENSILE STRESS;

BASILAR MEMBRANE (BM); COCHLEAR MECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; RADIAL TENSION;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CORTI ORGAN; GERBIL; HEARING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BIOMECHANICS; COCHLEA; ELASTICITY; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGAN OF CORTI; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 33846705599     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2404916     Document Type: Article

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