Mechanical properties of human tympanic membrane in the quasi-static regime from in situ point indentation measurements

Hearing Research

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 45-54

  Aernouts, Jef ^a   Aerts, Johan R M ^a   Dirckx, Joris J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EARDRUM; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDENTATION TEST; MALE; MECHANICAL TORSION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84863776877     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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