@inproceedings{5d9896b49b6a4c309b6dfcf86699ee63,
title = "Microanatomy of the cochlear hook",
abstract = "Communication among humans occurs through coding and decoding of acoustic information. The inner ear or cochlea acts as a frequency analyzer and divides the acoustic signal into small frequency bands, which are processed at different sites along the cochlea. The mechano-electrical conversion is accomplished by the soft tissue structures in the cochlea. While the anatomy for most of the cochlea has been well described, a detailed description of the very high frequency and vulnerable cochlear hook region is missing. To study the cochlear hook, mice cochleae were imaged with synchrotron radiation and high-resolution reconstructions have been made from the tomographic scans. This is the first detailed description of the bony and soft tissues of the hook region of the mammalian cochlea.",
keywords = "Cochlear hook, MicroCT, Microanatomy, Synchrotron radiation",
author = "Kwan, {Changyow Claire} and Xiaodong Tan and Stock, {Stuart R} and Carmen Soriano and Xianghui Xiao and Claus-Peter Richter",
note = "Funding Information: The APS is supported by the U.S. DOE, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science under contract No. W-31-109-ENG-38. The work is also supported in part by a grant from the Office of Naval Research (N00014-12-1-0173) and by the NIH, grant R01 DC011855. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 SPIE.; Developments in X-Ray Tomography XI 2017 ; Conference date: 08-08-2017 Through 10-08-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1117/12.2275187",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Ge Wang and Bert Muller",
booktitle = "Developments in X-Ray Tomography XI",
}