A pilot study on the human body vibration induced by low frequency noise

Industrial Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-35

  Takahashi, Yukio ^a   Yonekawa, Yoshiharu ^a   Kanada, Kazuo ^a   Maeda, Setsuo ^b  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Body mass index (BMI); Body surface; Chest; Human body vibration; Low frequency noise; Miniature accelerometer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; THORAX; VIBRATION;

EID: 0033042145     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.37.28     Document Type: Article

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