Deriving the real-ear SPL of audiometric data using the "coupler to dial difference" and the "real ear to coupler difference"

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 100-110

  Munro, Kevin J ^a,b   Davis, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETER; AUDIOMETRY; DEVICE; EAR; FEMALE; FOAM; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; EAR; EAR, MIDDLE; HEARING; HUMANS; PRESSURE;

EID: 0037383228     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AUD.0000058114.20741.4D     Document Type: Article

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