Time-domain "wave" model of the human tympanic membrane

Hearing Research

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 152-167

  Parent, Pierre ^a   Allen, Jont B ^b  

^a Mimosa Acoustics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Impedance; Middle ear; Model; Reflectance; Time domain

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TIME DOMAIN WAVE MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; EAR OSSICLES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; OTOSCLEROSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RHEOLOGY; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 77952586108     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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