Acoustic events and "optophonic" cochlear responses induced by pulsed near-infrared LASER

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1648-1655

  Teudt, Ingo Ulrik ^a   Maier, Hannes ^a   Richter, Claus Peter ^b   Kral, Andrej ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory system; hearing aids; infrared radiation effects; optical radiation effects; photoacoustic effects

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EVENTS; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; COCHLEAR RESPONSE; COMPOUND ACTION POTENTIALS; DRY NITROGEN; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; INFRARED-RADIATION EFFECTS; LASER INDUCED; LASER LIGHTS; LASER-EVOKED; LATENCY FUNCTION; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; NEAR-INFRARED LASERS; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; NEURAL TISSUE; OPTICAL STIMULATION; OPTICAL-RADIATION EFFECTS; PRESSURE WAVES; SOUND FIELDS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; THERMAL CONFINEMENT;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; AUDITION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS; HEARING AIDS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PULSED LASERS; RADIATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

INFRARED LASERS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; LASER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; COCHLEA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING AIDS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 79956359556     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2108297     Document Type: Article

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