Diagnostic Performance of Endoscopic and Microscopic Procedures for Identifying Different Middle Ear Structures and Remaining Disease in Patients with Chronic Otitis Media: A Prospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 BACKGROUND:The diagnostic performance of endoscopic and microscopic procedures for detecting diseases of the middle ear in patients with chronic otitis media (COM) has rarely been investigated. This study was conducted to compare the performance of these
Farhad Farahani +3 more
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Automatic laser steering for middle ear surgery [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This paper deals with the control of laser spot in the context of minimally invasive surgery of the middle ear, e.g., cholesteatoma removal. More precisely, our work is concerned with the exhaustive burring of residual infected cells after primary mechanical resection of the pathological tissues since the latter cannot guarantee the treatment of all ...
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The physics of hearing: fluid mechanics and the active process of the inner ear [PDF]
Rep. Progr. Phys. 77:7 (2014), 2014 Most sounds of interest consist of complex, time-dependent admixtures of tones of diverse frequencies and variable amplitudes. To detect and process these signals, the ear employs a highly nonlinear, adaptive, real-time spectral analyzer: the cochlea.
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Taste and olfaction in middle ear surgery [PDF]
, 2015 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess pre- and postoperative taste ability in patients undergoing middle ear surgery for otosclerosis or chronic otitis media.
CIOFALO, Andrea +6 more
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Safe Path following for Middle Ear Surgery [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This article formulates a generic representation of a path-following controller operating under contained motion, which was developed in the context of surgical robotics. It reports two types of constrained motion: i) Bilateral Constrained Motion, also called Remote Center Motion (RCM), and ii) Unilaterally Constrained Motion (UCM).
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Waves on Reissner's membrane: a mechanism for the propagation of otoacoustic emissions from the cochlea [PDF]
Cell Reports 1, 374-384 (2012), 2012 Sound is detected and converted into electrical signals within the ear. The cochlea not only acts as a passive detector of sound, however, but can also produce tones itself. These otoacoustic emissions are a striking manifestation of the cochlea's mechanical active process.
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Auditory effects of autologous fat graft for TORP stabilization in the middle ear: a cadaveric study. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: Total ossicular replacement prostheses (TORP) are often used to re-establish ossicular coupling of sound in an ear lacking a stapes supra-structure.
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Review of otitis media microbiome studies: What do they tell us?
Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2020 Objectives To provide a state of the art review on accruing studies focused on defining the middle ear microbiome, highlighting the relationship of the microbiome to disease pathophysiology.
Juan Carlos Nogues +2 more
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A comparative study of eight human auditory models of monaural processing [PDF]
, 2021 A number of auditory models have been developed using diverging approaches, either physiological or perceptual, but they share comparable stages of signal processing, as they are inspired by the same constitutive parts of the auditory system. We compare eight monaural models that are openly accessible in the Auditory Modelling Toolbox.
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