Acoustics of the human middle-ear air space

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 861-871

  Stepp, Cara E ^a,b   Voss, Susan E ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY;

AIR SPACE; ANATOMY; CIRCUIT MODELS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); EARDRUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASTOID; MASTOID AIR CELL; MIDDLE EAR; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CADAVER; EAR, MIDDLE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; PRESSURE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 23744485714     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1974730     Document Type: Article

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