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Response of the human tympanic membrane to transient acoustic and mechanical stimuli: Preliminary results.
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- Advanced methodology for damping characterization of the human tympanic membrane using high-speed digital holography and STFT analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Advanced Methodology for Damping Characterization of the Human Tympanic Membrane Using High-Speed Digital Holographic and STFT Analysis.Research square · 2026Article
- The Transmission of Sound to the Cochlea in Normal and Pathological Human Middle Ears.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025Review
- Numerical model characterization of the sound transmission mechanism in the tympanic membrane from a high-speed digital holographic experiment in transient regime.Acta biomaterialia · 2023Article
- Mammalian middle ear mechanics: A review.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Material characterization of thin planar structures using full-field harmonic vibration response measured with stroboscopic holography.International journal of mechanical sciences · 2021Article
- Rapid imaging of tympanic membrane vibrations in humans.Biomedical optics express · 2020Article
- High-Speed Holographic Shape and Full-Field Displacement Measurements of the Tympanic Membrane in Normal and Experimentally Simulated Pathological Ears.Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Mapping the phase and amplitude of ossicular chain motion using sound-synchronous optical coherence vibrography.Biomedical optics express · 2018Article
- Combined high-speed holographic shape and full-field displacement measurements of tympanic membrane.Journal of biomedical optics · 2018Article
- The path of a click stimulus from ear canal to umbo.Hearing research · 2017Article
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Abstract
The response of the tympanic membrane (TM) to transient environmental sounds and the contributions of different parts of the TM to middle-ear sound transmission were investigated by measuring the TM response to global transients (acoustic clicks) and to local transients (mechanical impulses) applied to the umbo and various locations on the TM. A lightly-fixed human temporal bone was prepared by removing the ear canal, inner ear, and stapes, leaving the incus, malleus, and TM intact. Motion of nearly the entire TM was measured by a digital holography system with a high speed camera at a rate of 42 000 frames per second, giving a temporal resolution of <24 μs for the duration of the TM response. The entire TM responded nearly instantaneously to acoustic transient stimuli, though the peak displacement and decay time constant varied with location. With local mechanical transients, the TM responded first locally at the site of stimulation, and the response spread approximately symmetrically and circumferentially around the umbo and manubrium. Acoustic and mechanical transients provide distinct and complementary stimuli for the study of TM response. Spatial variations in decay and rate of spread of response imply local variations in TM stiffness, mass, and damping.
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