Transmission properties of bone conducted sound: Measurements in cadaver heads

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2373-2391

  Stenfelt, Stefan ^a   Goode, Richard L ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CADAVER HEADS; COCHLEA; STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BONE CONDUCTION; CADAVER; COCHLEA; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXCITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MASTOID; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VIBRATION SENSE; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPEDANCE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; BONE CONDUCTION; CADAVER; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKULL; SOUND; VIBRATION;

EID: 26844517320     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2005847     Document Type: Article

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