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Resonances of biological cells at audible frequencies

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Two theories are discussed to account for the observed resonances of biological cells at sonic frequencies. One theory assumes the cell wall to be a stretched balloon surrounded by, and filled with, an incompressible fluid. The other treats the cell wall as a rigid shell. Both lead to reasonable physical constants for the cell wall.

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  1. Johnson Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Eugene Ackerman

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The initial phases of this work were supported by a grant from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to Professor H. B. Wahlin and were included in the author's theses submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, August, 1949. The work is being supported at present by a grant to the Johnson Foundation from the Raytheon Manufacturing Company.

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Ackerman, E. Resonances of biological cells at audible frequencies. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 13, 93–106 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478356

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