Attenuating Cardiac Pulsations within the Cochlea: Structure and Function of Tortuous Vessels Feeding Stria Vascularis

Figure 6

Model of a convoluted tube showing the definition of a node, that is, the section that precedes a bend in the tube. The lower panel shows the graphical representation of the mathematical model. The sinusoidal input (left) represents cardiovascular pulse signal into a convoluted vessel. The model output values are graphed (center plot) according to the number of nodes in the model. The model output (right) shows the attenuated pulse signal.