Middle-ear transmission in humans: Wide-band, not frequency-tuned?

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 53-58

  Ruggero, Mario A ^a   Temchin, Andrei N ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOGRAMS; HUMAN EARS; VIBRATION RESPONSES; VIBRATION VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BANDWIDTH; BONE; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; LOW PASS FILTERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 2942726390     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1566924     Document Type: Article

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