Measuring the quasi-static Young's modulus of the eardrum using an indentation technique

Hearing Research

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 168-176

  Hesabgar, S Mohammad ^a   Marshall, Harry ^a   Agrawal, Sumit K ^a   Samani, Abbas ^a   Ladak, Hanif M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eardrum; Finite element method; Indentation; Optimization; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INDENTATION TECHNIQUE; MALLEUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARS FLACCIDA; PARS TENSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGAMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 77952581572     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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