2.2.1 Participants
All the scans were taken at the same facility using a Siemens sensation 64 CT scanner (Siemens, Munich, Germany). The scanning parameters for the live cochleae were: acquisition 12 x 0.6 mm, rotation time 1s, pitch 0.8, 120 kV tube voltage. Reconstruction parameters were 0.3 mm reconstruction increment, 90 mm reconstruction FOV and U90u kernel.