1986 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Measurement of Eardrum Acoustic Impedance
verfasst von : J. B. Allen
Erschienen in: Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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In this paper we describe a system which we have developed to measure cat ear canal specific acoustic impedance Z sp , magnitude and phase, as a function of frequency, for frequencies between 200 Hz and 33 kHz, and impedance magnitudes between 4.0 to 4.0×l05 rayles (MKS). The object to be measured is placed at the end of a 3.5 mm diameter sound delivery tube. After a simple calibration procedure, which determines the Thévenin parameters for the acoustic source transducer, the impedance may be calculated from the pressure measured at the orifice of the delivery tube with the unknown load in place. This procedure allows for a fast but accurate measure of a specific acoustic impedance. The system has been tested by measuring the impedance of a long cavity and comparing this response to the exact solution of the linearized Navier Stokes equations (acoustic equations including viscosity and thermal conduction). We have used this system to measure the impedance of the normal cat tympanic membrane in more than 30 cats. Healthy animals were found to have a real input impedance of ρc between 0.3 to 20.0 kHz. When the scala vestibuli was drained, the real part of the impedance dropped to less than ρc/10 for frequencies less than 3.0 kHz. Above 3 kHz, the impedance for the drained cochlea is best described by an open circuited transmission line.