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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hear Res. 2014 Oct 29;318:37–44. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2014.10.010

Figure 2. Representation of CFL-HB and HB model adaptations.

Figure 2

This figure represents the difference between each adaptation of the turtle utricle OM model. In A) the CFL–HB complex is modeled with isotropic volume elements that implicitly account for the shear stiffness of the hair bundles. In B) the CFL-HB complex is removed and hair bundles are explicitly modeled with finite element Euler-Bernoulli beams. Comparing the CFL-HB model to the HB model allows for a determination of how much hair bundles contribute to the shear stiffness of the CFL-HB complex. Please note 1) the neuroepithelium is curved in both medial-lateral and anterior-posterior directions and 2) OM layers vary thickness in all directions.