Tom Witke, Eduard Kuhn, Fabian Teichert, Christian Goßler, Ulrich Theodor Schwarz, Angela Thränhardt
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Abstract
The cochlea forms a key element of the human auditory system in the temporal bone. Damage to the cochlea continues to produce significant impairment for sensory reception of environmental stimuli. To improve this impairment, the optical cochlear implant forms a new research approach. A prerequisite for this method is to understand how light propagation, as well as scattering, reflection, and absorption, takes place within the cochlea. We offer a method to study the light distribution in the human cochlea through phantom materials which have the objective to mimic the optical behavior of bone and Monte-Carlo simulations. The calculation of an angular distribution after scattering requires a phase function. Often approximate functions like Henyey–Greenstein, two-term Henyey–Greenstein or Legendre polynomial decompositions are used as phase function. An alternative is to exactly calculate a Mie distribution for each scattering event. This method provides a better fit to the data measured in this work.
期刊介绍:
The first international journal dedicated to publishing reviews and original articles from this exciting field, the Journal of Biophotonics covers the broad range of research on interactions between light and biological material. The journal offers a platform where the physicist communicates with the biologist and where the clinical practitioner learns about the latest tools for the diagnosis of diseases. As such, the journal is highly interdisciplinary, publishing cutting edge research in the fields of life sciences, medicine, physics, chemistry, and engineering. The coverage extends from fundamental research to specific developments, while also including the latest applications.