Finite element modeling of acousto-mechanical coupling in the cat middle ear

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 348-362

  Tuck Lee, James P ^a   Pinsky, Peter M ^a   Steele, Charles R ^a   Puria, Sunil ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LITHOGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC ENERGY (AE); ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); ADAPTIVE IMPLEMENTATION; CHALLENGING TASK; COLLAGEN FIBERS; EAR CANAL; ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE) MODELING; FULLY COUPLED; HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); LANCZOS ALGORITHMS; LAYERED COMPOSITES; MECHANICAL COUPLING; MIDDLE EARS; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; REDUCED ORDER; SUB-LAYERS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; TRANSVERSE SHEAR; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE (TM);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EARDRUM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE EAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATS; COCHLEA; EAR CANAL; EAR OSSICLES; EAR, MIDDLE; HEARING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 47649105388     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2912438     Document Type: Article

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