Use of Microphone Technology to Improve User Performance in Noise

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 112-135

  Valente, Michael ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING AID; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROPHONE; REVIEW; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032880279     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108471389900400302     Document Type: Article

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