Multifield coupled finite element analysis for sound transmission in otitis media with effusion

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3527-3538

  Gan, Rong Z ^a   Wang, Xuelin ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES;

EFFUSION; HISTOLOGICAL SECTIONS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARDRUM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STAPES; TEMPORAL BONE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AIR; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BONE CONDUCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR, MIDDLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAPES; TEMPORAL BONE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 38849144050     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2793699     Document Type: Article

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