Digital signal processing hearing aids, personal FM systems, and interference: Is there a problem?

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 341-349

  Bamford, John ^a   Hostler, Mary ^a   Pont, Gareth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Connevans Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNITED KINGDOM; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; NOISE; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND;

EID: 21444434408     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-200506000-00009     Document Type: Article

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