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Roberto Reif1, Zhongwei Zhi, Suzan Dziennis, Alfred L Nuttall, Ruikang K Wang.
Abstract
In this work we determined the contributions of loud sound exposure (LSE) on cochlear blood flow (CoBF) in an in vivo anesthetized mouse model. A broadband noise system (20 kHz bandwidth) with an intensity of 119 dB SPL, was used for a period of one hour to produce a loud sound stimulus. Two techniques were used to study the changes in blood flow, a Doppler optical microangiography (DOMAG) system; which can measure the blood flow within individual cochlear vessels, and a laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) system; which averages the blood flow within a volume (a hemisphere of ~1.5 mm radius) of tissue. Both systems determined that the blood flow within the cochlea is reduced due to the LSE stimulation.Entities:
Keywords: Cochlear blood flow (CoBF); Doppler optical microangiography (DOMAG); hypoxia
Year: 2013 PMID: 24273740 PMCID: PMC3834207 DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2013.10.02
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Quant Imaging Med Surg ISSN: 2223-4306