Auditory Mechanics Laboratory

Prof. W. Robert J. Funnell, Ph.D., Eng.
Department of BioMedical Engineering
McGill University
3775, rue University
Montréal, QC
H3A 2B4
Canada

Other local stuff

• Mechanics and modelling for the middle ear – a tutorial review
• Modelling middle-ear mechanics: material for lecture in course Selected Topics in BioMedical Engineering (BMDE-501)
• Diverse and distributed domains: material for 2 lectures on circuit modelling and finite-element modelling
• Web Interface to Finite Elements: generate a mesh and do a finite-element simulation, from the comfort of your own browser. (Flaky - please let me know if you want to use this.)
• 3Dear: tutorial on the anatomy of the middle and inner ear, making use of interactive 3-D models and including a quiz. The instructions for viewing the 3-D models are out of date; see these instructions instead.
• Experimentally measured ossicular-motion data
• Various sources of data that we use for our modelling

Other hearing resources

• Information about newborn hearing screening
  • Canadian Infant Hearing Task Force
  • Newborn Hearing Screening from the Hearing Foundation of Canada
  • Evaluation of the newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) in England, Report of the Evaluation of the first phase of implementation of the NHSP, November 2004, Volume One: Studies, Results and Recommendations. Authors: John Bamford, Holly Ankjell, Rachel Crockett, Theresa Marteau, Wendy McCracken, Dave Parker, Helen Tattersall, Rod Taylor, Kai Uus, Alys Young
    Posted here by permission of the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme, UK
    
• Information about noise-induced hearing loss
  • Sound Sense from the Hearing Foundation of Canada
  • Dangerous Decibels
  • Noisy Planet from NIDCD (a successor to their previous Wise Ears! campaign)
  • Too Loud! For Too Long! from CDC
• Associations
  • Association for Research in Otolaryngology (includes meeting abstracts)
  • Acoustical Society of America
  • AAO-HNS: American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
  • Canadian Society of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
  • Canadian Acoustical Association
• Wideband Acoustic Immittance Database
• 3-D Virtual Models of the Human Temporal Bone and Related Structures (Eaton-Peabody Lab, Mass. Eye & Ear)
• Serial histological sections of the temporal bone (Eaton-Peabody Lab, Mass. Eye & Ear): 20-µm H&E sections, interactive high-resolution 40× images, two horizontal sets (every 10th or 20th section) and one vertical set (every 40th section)
• Temporal (ear) bone anatomy (annotated histological sections) by Kevin Kavanagh
• HEAR Center, Pasadena (CA)
• Other hearing-related WWW sites

Other modelling resources

• Open-access material on the ‘finite element method’ (search results from OASIS. As of 2020 May 27 there are 4 hits: 1 highly specialized book, 2 multi-authored collections of highly specialized chapters, and 1 course consisting of 50 hours of recorded lectures plus assignments.
• Finite-element resources by Young and MacPhedran, Univ. Saskatchewan (last version from web.archive.org, 2006 Jun 18)
• International Society of Biomechanics

Other resources

• Animal-care theory training course (McGill)
• Hawkins' Tissue Mechanics