Acoustic rhinometry

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-11

  Tomkinson, Alun ^a   Eccles, Ronald ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONE; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINOMANOMETRY; SINUSITIS; SOUND PRESSURE; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0029967785     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00020840-199602000-00002     Document Type: Review

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