Multicomponent acoustic distortion product otoacoustic emission phase in humans. I. General characteristics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1617-1639

  Moulin, Annie ^a,b   Kemp, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029837366     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.416063     Document Type: Article

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