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《Middle-ear function in the chinchilla: Circuit models and comparison with other mammalian species》

  • 来源专题：水声领域信息监测
  • 发布时间：2016-11-14

  • The middle ear efficiently transmits sound from the ear canal into the inner ear through a broad range of frequencies. Thus, understanding middle-ear transmission characteristics is essential in the study of hearing mechanics. Two models of the chinchilla middle ear are presented. In the first model, the middle ear is modeled as a lumped parameter system with elements that represent the ossicular chain and the middle-ear cavity. Parameters of this model are fit using available experimental data of two-port transmission matrix parameters. In an effort to improve agreement between model simulations and the phase of published experimental measurements for the forward pressure transfer function at high frequencies, a second model in which a lossless transmission line model of the tympanic membrane is appended to the original model is proposed. Two-port transmission matrix parameter results from this second model were compared with results from previously developed models of the guinea pig, cat, and human middle ears. Model results and published experimental data for the two-port transmission matrix parameters are found to be qualitatively similar between species. Quantitative differences in the two-port transmission matrix parameters suggest that the ossicular chains of chinchillas, cats, and guinea pigs are less flexible than in humans.

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