Quantification of tympanic membrane elasticity parameters from in situ point indentation measurements: Validation and preliminary study

Hearing Research

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 177-182

  Aernouts, Jef ^a   Soons, Joris A M ^a   Dirckx, Joris J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Inverse modeling; Point indentation; Tympanic membrane elasticity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOIRE PROFILOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; POINT MICROINDENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE ELASTICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LATEX; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOIRE TOPOGRAPHY; RABBITS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 77952580786     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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