Auditory hazard from airbag noise exposure

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2629-2637

  Price, G Richard ^a   Kalb, Joel T ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CAT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032718478     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428092     Document Type: Article

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