Coherent reflection in a two-dimensional cochlea: Short-wave versus long-wave scattering in the generation of reflection-source otoacoustic emissions.

@article{Shera2005CoherentRI,
  title={Coherent reflection in a two-dimensional cochlea: Short-wave versus long-wave scattering in the generation of reflection-source otoacoustic emissions.},
  author={Christopher A. Shera and Arnold Tubis and Carrick L. Talmadge},
  journal={The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year={2005},
  volume={118 1},
  pages={
          287-313
        }
}
The theory of coherent reflection filtering explains the empirical form of the cochlear reflectance by showing how it emerges from the coherent "backscattering" of forward-traveling waves by impedance perturbations in the mechanics of the cochlear partition. Since the theory was developed using the one-dimensional (1-D) transmission-line model of the cochlea, an obvious logical shortcoming is the failure of the long-wavelength approximation near the peak of the traveling wave, where coherent… 
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