Tinnitus improvement with ultra-high-frequency vibration therapy

International Tinnitus Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-22

  Goldstein, Barbara A ^a,b   Lenhardt, Martin L ^c   Shulman, Abraham ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Martha Entenmann Tinnitus Research Center   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency bone conduction; Minimal masking levels; Positron emission tomography; Tinnitus questionnaires; Ultra high frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; BONE CONDUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; LOUDNESS; PITCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; TINNITUS; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; BONE CONDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIBRATION;

EID: 21444447628     PISSN: 09465448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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