Objectively measured and subjectively perceived distortion in nonlinear systems

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3759-3769

  Olofsson, Åke ^a   Hansen, Martin ^b,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Widex Audiology Research Lab   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES EMDEN LEER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; HARMONIC DISTORTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NONLINEAR DISTORTION;

COMPRESSION SYSTEMS; HILBERT PAIR; INPUT SIGNAL; MONOTONIC RELATION; NOISE RATIO;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FUNCTION TEST; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845351344     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2372591     Document Type: Article

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