The cochlear amplifier as a standing wave: "Squirting" waves between rows of outer hair cells?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1016-1024

  Bell, Andrew ^a   Fletcher, Neville H ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHOBICITY; STANDING WAVE METERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COCHLEAR AMPLIFIERS; HYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; DISPERSION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HYDROPHOBICITY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; WAVEFORM;

BASILAR MEMBRANE; BIOMECHANICS; COCHLEA; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LABYRINTHINE FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 4043144939     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1766053     Document Type: Article

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