... the ear utilizing a straight, two-chambered cochlea, but the spiral cochlea’s response to blast exposure has yet to be investigated. In this study, we utilized a human ear finite element (FE) model with a spiraled, two-chambered cochlea to simulate the response of the anatomical structural cochlea to BOP...

... strain rates, which are critical input for modeling the mechanical response under blast wave. The property data at high strain rates can also potentially be converted into complex modulus in frequency domain to model acoustic transmission in the human ear. In this study, we developed a new miniature...

... be determined for different locations over the entire TM, and the in-plane properties can be determined for different quadrants of the TM. 29 08 2006 14 06 2007 01 02 2008 biomechanics biomedical measurement biomembranes ear indentation viscoelasticity Young's modulus tympanic...

...Tao Cheng; Rong Z. Gan, Ph.D. Measurement on mechanical properties of the stapedial tendon in human middle ear has not been reported in the literature. In this paper, we used the material testing system to conduct uniaxial tensile, stress relaxation, and failure tests on stapedial tendon specimens...

... and Santos-Sacchi ( 24 ) investigated the chloride channels in the outer hair cell plasma membrane. Prestin is necessary for electromotility: Outer hair cells with prestin deletions lose their electromotile properties and, more importantly, the ears of prestin knockout mice lose the sharpness of hearing ( 25...

...; revision received October 10, 2003; Associate Editor: M. Toner. 10 December 2002 10 October 2003 09 03 2004 ear biomechanics bioelectric phenomena mechanoception piezoelectric actuators cell motility Cochlear outer hair cells play a key role in the active...

... of the filaments was also developed 25 26 . Outer hair cells, receptor/effector cells in the cochlea of the mammalian ear, play a critical role in the active amplification, sharp frequency selectivity, and characteristic nonlinearities of the cochlea 1 2 3 . The outer hair...