Anatomy of the Inner Ear

Inner ear anatomy nerves, semicircular canals, ossicles, tympanic membrane highlighted

Overview

Content Expert: Dr Patrick Spielmann

Content Reviewers: Dr Penny Lockwood and Dr David Stewart

Medical Artist: Annie Campbell

 

Certain aspects of this model were created from segmented MRI data*, making this a highly accurate representation of the tympanic membrane, facial nerve, ossicles and vestibular system.

This work “Anatomy of the Inner Ear”, is a derivative of “3D Ear” by W. Robert J. Funnell, PhD; Sam Daniel, MD, CM; and Daren Nicolson, MD, CM at McGill University, used under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. “Anatomy of the Inner Ear” is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

You are free to copy, reuse and remix this for non-commercial purposes but we ask that you acknowledge the University of Dundee as well as publish any remixed work under the same share-alike license as the original authors.

*The vestibulocochlear nerve was not derived from MRI data, however heavily referenced.

You can locate the segmented MRI data from the following: http://audilab.bmed.mcgill.ca/~daren/3Dear/index.html

The original MRI dataset can be found in the following location: http://cbaweb2.med.unc.edu/henson_mrm/

 

 

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