Effects of mobile phone exposure on time frequency fine structure of transiently evoked otoacoustic emissions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2174-2182

  Paglialonga, Alessia ^a,b   Tognola, Gabriella ^a   Parazzini, Marta ^a   Lutman, Mark E ^c   Bell, Steven L ^c   Thuroczy, Gyorgy ^d   Ravazzani, Paolo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d National Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUDITORY FUNCTION; COCHLEAR FUNCTION; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; TIME FREQUENCY FINE STRUCTURE; TRANSIENTLY EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS (TEOAE);

MOBILE PHONES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EAR, MIDDLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HUMANS; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 34848906204     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2773944     Document Type: Article

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