High-Frequency Ex vivo Ultrasound Imaging of the Auditory System

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1899-1907

  Brown, Jeremy A ^a   Torbatian, Zahra ^a   Adamson, Robert B ^a   Van Wijhe, Rene ^a   Pennings, Ronald J ^a   Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^b   Bance, Manohar L ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Annular array; Auditory system; Basilar membrane; Beamformer; Cochlea; High frequency; Inner ear; Middle ear; Ossicles; Transducer array; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR ARRAY; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BASILAR MEMBRANES; BEAM FORMERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INNER EAR; MIDDLE EARS; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BEAMFORMING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEMBRANES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CADAVER; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INCUS; MALLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STAPES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

COCHLEA; EAR; EAR OSSICLES; EAR, MIDDLE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 74249096165     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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