Examination of bone-conducted transmission from sound field excitation measured by thresholds, ear-canal sound pressure, and skull vibrations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1576-1587

  Reinfeldt, Sabine ^a   Stenfelt, Stefan ^a,b   Good, Tobias ^a   Håkansson, Bo ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

AIR CONDUCTION (AC); BONE CONDUCTION (BC); SOUND FIELD SENSITIVITY; SOUND PRESSURE;

BONE;

ACCELEROMETER; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VIBRATION;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; EAR CANAL; HUMANS; PRESSURE; SKULL; SOUND; VIBRATION;

EID: 34147095377     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2434762     Document Type: Article

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