Objective Poor hearing outcomes often persist following total drum replacement
tympanoplasty. To understand the mechanics of the reconstructed eardrum, we measured …

Quantitative understanding of the mechanical behavior of the external and middle ear is
important, not only in the quest for improved diagnosis and treatment of conductive hearing …

Background Conceptual models of the coupling of tympanic membrane motion to the
ossicular chain can be classified as either modal responses to a uniform stimulation of the …

A three-dimensional static nonlinear finite-element model of a 22-day-old newborn middle
ear is presented. The model includes the tympanic membrane (TM), malleus, incus, and two …

A method to transform the impedance measured in the ear canal, Z EC, to the plane of the
eardrum, Z ED, is described. The portion of the canal between the probe and eardrum was …

This chapter reviews and summarizes the literature on the function of the vertebrate middle
ear from fish to mammals. The different issues associated with stimulating the inner ear of …

An acoustical/mechanical model of normal adult human middle-ear function is described for
forward and reverse transmission. The eardrum model included one component bound …

The effects of middle-ear pathology on wideband acoustic immittance and reflectance at
frequencies above 6–8 kHz have not been documented, nor has the effect of such …

Objectives: To evaluate the correlation between postoperative aeration around the stapes
and hearing outcome after canal wall down tympanoplasty with canal reconstruction for …

Background The main objective of this paper is to study the mechanical influence of the
tympanic cavity (TC) in the auditory system (AS). It is done for a frequency range from 0.1 to …