System pomiarowy do badań eksperymentalnych mechaniki ucha środkowego

W artykule opisano system pomiarowy do bezkontaktowego pomiaru parametrów drgań elementów strukturalnych narządu słuchu. Zaproponowano oryginalną metodykę pomiarów eksperymentalnych drgań błony okienka okrągłego w warunkach in-vitro oraz stwierdzono, że technika laserowej wibrometrii Dopplerowskiej jest przydatnym narzędziem badawczym w skali mikro- i nanometrowej nie tylko obiektów technicznych ale również obiektów biologicznych.

This paper presents the measuring system for non-contact measurements of vibration parameters of the hearing organ structural elements. An original methodology for in-vitro measurements of the round window membrane vibration is proposed. It was found that the Laser Doppler Vibrometry (LDV) technique is a useful research tool in micro- and nanometer scale not only technical but also biological objects. Section 1 shows the hearing organ anatomic structure (Fig. 1) and presents the applicability of the LDV method. Section 2 contains a brief review of the literature [1-16] presenting the methodology of experimental middle ear mechanics carried out by the LDV technique. Subsection 2.1 describes the various ways of making the temporal bone preparations and contains diagrams showing examples of such preparations (Fig. 2). Subsections 2.2 and 2.3 deal with a system that forces acoustic vibrations in the test preparation and the optical system allowing measurements of the velocity or displacement amplitude of vibrating elements. Section 3 presents the authors' methodology for experimental measurements of the round window membrane vibration. There is shown the scheme of experimental measurements and view of the part of the test stand (Fig. 4) as well as the functional diagram (Fig. 5), block diagram and view of the measurement system (Fig. 6). In Section 4 there is described the possibility of using the developed methodology and the measurement system.