MicroComputed Tomography has become the gold standard for studying 3D microscopic
structures nondestructively, and this book provides up-to-date coverage of the modality. The …

The middle ear is part of the ear in all terrestrial vertebrates. It provides an interface between
two media, air and fluid. How does it work? In mammals, the middle ear is traditionally …

During the past 50 years, the high acoustic sensitivity and the echolocation behavior of
dolphins and other small odontocetes have been studied thoroughly. However …

The high sensitivity and wide bandwidth of mammalian hearing are thought to derive from
an active process involving the somatic and hair-bundle motility of the thousands of outer …

It has been reported that the physiological motion of the stapes in human and several
animals in response to acoustic stimulation is mainly piston-like at low frequencies. At higher …

As a result of the cochlea's nonlinear mechanics, stimulation by two tones results in the
generation of distortion products (DPs) at frequencies flanking the primary tones. DPs are …

In the last decades, finite-element models of the middle ear have been widely used to
predict the middle-ear vibration outputs. Even with the simplest linear assumption for …

Introduction: Since 1996, the preferred approach for positioning the active middle-ear
implant Vibrant Soundbridge© is a mastoidectomy and a posterior tympanotomy. With this …

Recent measurements of three-dimensional stapes motion in gerbil indicated that the piston
component of stapes motion was the primary contributor to intracochlear pressure. In order …

Middle-ear sound transmission was evaluated as the middle-ear transfer admittance HMY
(the ratio of stapes velocity to ear-canal sound pressure near the umbo) in gerbils during …