Distance and Reverberation Effects on Directional Benefit

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 472-484

  Ricketts, Todd A ^a   Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0344304659     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AUD.0000100202.00312.02     Document Type: Article

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