Full-field thickness distribution of human tympanic membrane obtained with optical coherence tomography

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 483-494

  Van Der Jeught, Sam ^a   Dirckx, Joris J J ^a   Aerts, Johan R M ^a   Bradu, Adrian ^b   Podoleanu, Adrian Gh ^b   Buytaert, Jan A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D model; eardrum; finite element modeling; OCT; pars tensa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARDRUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL BONE; THICKNESS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE THICKNESS;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CADAVER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 84880282251     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-013-0394-z     Document Type: Article

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