Intracochlear Pressure and Organ of Corti Impedance from a Linear Active Three-Dimensional Model

Intracochlear pressure and basilar membrane (BM) velocity are calculated from a physiologically based chinchilla cochlea model . The model includes three-dimensional viscous fluid and the pectinate zone of the elastic BM with dimensional and material property variation along its length. The passive...

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Veröffentlicht in:O.R.L. Journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties 2006-01, Vol.68 (6), p.365-372
Hauptverfasser: Yoon, Yong-Jin, Puria, Sunil, Steele, C.R.
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Zusammenfassung:Intracochlear pressure and basilar membrane (BM) velocity are calculated from a physiologically based chinchilla cochlea model . The model includes three-dimensional viscous fluid and the pectinate zone of the elastic BM with dimensional and material property variation along its length. The passive response shows excellent agreement with measurement at high sound pressure levels. The active process is represented by adding the motility of the outer hair cells (OHCs) to the passive model with the feed-forward approximation of the organ of Corti (OC), as was done previously. The current model explains recent observations including: (1) agreement with characteristic frequency (CF)-to-place map, (2) CF shift in the active model, (3) BM displacement gain from OHC motility, (4) lower intracochlear pressure gain than BM displacement gain, and (5) OC impedance (Z OC ).
ISSN:0301-1569
1423-0275
DOI:10.1159/000095279