Sound pressure distribution and power flow within the gerbil ear canal from 100 Hz to 80 kHz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2154-2173

  Ravicz, Michael E ^a,b   Olson, Elizabeth S ^c,d   Rosowski, John J ^a,b,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Biomedical Engineering Department   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; MICROPHONES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

BONY EAR CANAL; GERBIL EAR CANAL; LONGITUDINAL TRAJECTORIES; POWER FLOW; SOUND PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE (TM);

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EARDRUM; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GERBIL; MICROPHONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; EAR CANAL; EAR, MIDDLE; GERBILLINAE; LINEAR MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STAPES; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 34848877419     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2769625     Document Type: Article

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