Comparison between intensity and pressure as measures of sound level in the ear canal

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2925-2934

  Neely, Stephen T ^a   Gorga, Michael P ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE; WAVEFORM;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR CANAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031764315     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423876     Document Type: Article

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