Perception of microphone noise in hearing instruments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3364-3368

  Lee, Lidia W ^a   Geddes, Earl R ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GedLee LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; NOISE;

EID: 0032436611     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423920     Document Type: Article

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