Research Article
An Analytical Mechanical Model of Corti in the Cochlea
Table 1
Geometric data of each part of OC.
| Parameter | Parameter description | Parameter value |
| | The width of BM | 168 (base) ∼ 200 (apex) | | The distance between the left end and the right end of the arch structure | b/3 | | The distance between the bottom of the middle row of OHCs and the left end of the BM | b/2 | | The acute angle between OHCs bundles and z-axis | (base) ∼ (apex) | | The acute angle of the arch structure | | | The acute angle between OHCs and z-axis | (base) ∼ (apex) | | The lengths of OHCs | 70 (base) ∼ 110 (apex) | | The lengths of OHC bundles | 5 | | The thickness of BM | 7 (base) ∼ 1 (apex) | | The thickness of OHCs | 4.5 | | The thickness of OHC bundles | 0.2 |
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