Age effects in the human middle ear: Wideband acoustical measures

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3546-3558

  Feeney, M Patrick ^a,b   Sanford, Chris A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AUDIO SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION;

AGING PROCESSES; PRESBYCUSIS; TYMPANOMETRY; WIDEBAND ENERGY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE EAR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TYMPANOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; EAR CANAL; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 11144268084     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1808221     Document Type: Article

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