Treating the Middle Ear (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Treating the Middle Ear

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Researchers suggest that microplasma can be delivered to the human eardrum with a device that attaches to an otoscope speculum, a standard diagnostic tool for problems in the ear.

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Image courtesy Peter P. Sun, Jungeun (Jenny) Won, Thanh H. (Helen) Nguyen, J. Gary Eden and Stephen Boppart. Illustration generated with help from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s Visualization Laboratory. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 7(48), 1 (2021).

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Credit required: Image courtesy Peter P. Sun, Jungeun (Jenny) Won, Thanh H. (Helen) Nguyen, J. Gary Eden and Stephen Boppart. Illustration generated with help from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s Visualization Laboratory. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 7(48), 1 (2021).

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