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ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2017

The effects of varying tympanic-membrane material properties on human middle-ear sound transmission in a three-dimensional finite-element model.

Kevin N O'Connor, Hongxue Cai, Sunil Puria

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Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for A Fractional-Order Model of the Human Ear.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026
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  7. The Transmission of Sound to the Cochlea in Normal and Pathological Human Middle Ears.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025
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  9. Experimental Study of Needle Insertion into Gerbil Tympanic Membrane.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024
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  10. Mechanical Effects of Medical Device Attachment to Human Tympanic Membrane.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024
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  14. The Effects of Middle-ear Stiffness on the Auditory Brainstem Neural Encoding of Phase.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2022
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  18. Mechanics of Total Drum Replacement Tympanoplasty Studied With Wideband Acoustic Immittance.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2022
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  19. Mammalian middle ear mechanics: A review.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kevin N O'ConnorDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Hongxue CaiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Sunil PuriaDepartment of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.

Funding

Why do mammals have a flexible three-bone ossicular chain?R01DC005960 · NIDCD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI STEELE, CHARLES RICHARD · 2004 to 2018
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NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005960
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An anatomically based three-dimensional finite-element human middle-ear (ME) model is used to test the sensitivity of ME sound transmission to tympanic-membrane (TM) material properties. The baseline properties produce responses comparable to published measurements of ear-canal input impedance and power reflectance, stapes velocity normalized by ear-canal pressure (P

Indexed as

HearingModels, AnatomicModels, TheoreticalEar, MiddleElastic ModulusFinite Element AnalysisHumansMotionPressureReproducibility of ResultsSoundTympanic MembraneVibrationX-Ray Microtomography

Identifiers

PMID29195482
PMCPMC5681352

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