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Abstract | ||
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Many clinical reports have discussed the effectiveness of stimulating the ear's round window (RW) with a tool to mitigate conductive and mixed hearing loss. The RW is one of the two openings from the middle ear into the inner ear. Various methods have been proposed to construct a highly efficient, easily implanted, and reliable RW transducer. Devices, however, such as floating mass transducers, have difficulty establishing proper contact without some degree of bone incision around the RW. Additionally, vibration energy may not be fully transmitted to the cochlea, but instead will be spread through the soft tissue around the transducer. We propose a more direct RW stimulation with very high acoustical impedance using a receiver that is a volume velocity source. We expect this source to overcome large acoustic impedance by maximizing sound pressure in a confined space, the RW niche. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, ear canal pressure, RW pressure, and stapes velocity are measured by acoustic RW stimulation of human temporal bones. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.04.026 | Computers in Biology and Medicine |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Acoustic stimulation,Round window,Stapes velocity,LDV,Cadaveric experiments | Acoustic impedance,Transducer,Computer vision,Sound pressure,Computer science,Stapes,Artificial intelligence,Acoustics,Round window,Middle ear,Ear canal,Inner ear | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
97 | 0010-4825 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ki-Woong Seong | 1 | 6 | 6.08 |
| Kyu-yup Lee | 2 | 3 | 1.61 |
| sunil puria | 3 | 1 | 1.16 |
| Jin-ho Cho | 4 | 25 | 16.29 |