Hearing loss from interrupted, intermittent, and time varying Gaussian noise exposures: The applicability of the equal energy hypothesis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1613-1620

  Qiu, Wei ^a   Davis, Bob ^a   Hamernik, Roger P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CELLS; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

HEARING LOSS; SENSORY CELLS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL (SPL);

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING LOSS; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; HEARING DISORDERS; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34147125353     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2434692     Document Type: Article

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