The prevalence of ear disorders has spurred efforts to develop drug delivery systems to treat
these conditions. Here, recent advances in drug delivery systems that access the ear …

Core body temperature (CBT) is an important and commonly used indicator of human health
and endurance performance. A rise in baseline CBT can be attributed to an onset of flu …

Two methods are especially suited for tomographic imaging with histological detail of
macroscopic samples that consist of multiple tissue types (bone, muscle, nerve or fat): Light …

Over the last several decades, both the academic and therapeutic fields have seen
significant progress in the delivery of drugs to the inner ear due to recent delivery methods …

The tympanic membrane (TM) is an exquisite structure that captures and transmits sound
from the environment to the ossicular chain of the middle ear. The creation of TM grafts by …

Objective/Hypothesis In this study, optical coherence tomography (OCT) is used to
noninvasively and quantitatively determine tympanic membrane (TM) thickness and the …

The tympanic membrane (TM) transfers sound waves from the air into mechanical motion for
the ossicular chain. This requires a high sensitivity to small dynamic pressure changes and …

Otitis media is the most common reason US children receive antibiotics. The requisite 7-to
10-day course of oral antibiotics can be challenging to deliver in children, entails potential …

For over 40 years, finite-element models of the mechanics of the middle ear have been
mostly deterministic in nature. Deterministic models do not take into account the effects of …

Objective To evaluate the recent developments in optical coherence tomography (OCT) for
tympanic membrane (TM) and middle ear (ME) imaging and to identify what further …