Gerbil middle-ear sound transmission from 100 Hz to 60 kHz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 363-380

  Ravicz, Michael E ^a,b   Cooper, Nigel P ^c   Rosowski, John J ^a,b,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC LINES; FREQUENCY BANDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POWER TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INPUT IMPEDANCES; LOSSLESS; MECHANICAL TRANSMISSIONS; MIDDLE EARS; NARROW FREQUENCY BAND; SOUND PRESSURES; SOUND STIMULATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION LINE (TL); TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; MIDDLE EAR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COCHLEAR NERVE; EAR, MIDDLE; GERBILLINAE; SOUND; STAPES;

EID: 47649090603     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2932061     Document Type: Article

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