Open access high-resolution 3D morphology models of cat, gerbil, rabbit, rat and human ossicular chains

Hearing Research

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Salih, Wasil H M ^a   Buytaert, Jan A N ^a   Aerts, Johan R M ^a   Vanderniepen, Pieter ^b   Dierick, Manuel ^b   Dirckx, Joris J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; GERBIL; HEARING; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCUS; MALLEUS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; STAPES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATS; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR OSSICLES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RABBITS; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857501171     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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