Prestrain in the eardrum investigated using laser-ablation perforation: A proof of principle study on the New Zealand white rabbit
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While the presence of residual stress (also called prestress) in the tympanic membrane (TM) was hypothesized more than 150 years ago by von Helmholtz (1869), little experimental data exists to date. In this paper, a novel approach to study residual stress is p... ...