The cochlea as a smart structure

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Elliott, Stephen J ^a   Shera, Christopher A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR AMPLIFIERS; COILED TUBES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; DISPERSIVE WAVES; DYNAMIC RANGE; FEED-BACK LOOP; FEEDBACK ACTION; FEEDBACK GAIN; FLEXIBLE PARTITION; FLUID CHAMBER; HUMAN COCHLEAS; INNER EAR; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; LOW LEVEL; MECHANICAL ACTION; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NANOMETRES; NONLINEAR NATURE; OUTER HAIR CELL; SELECTIVE HEARING; SENSORY CELLS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; WAVE MODELS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; AUDITION;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84861905195     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/6/064001     Document Type: Review

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