Non-ossicular signal transmission in human middle ears: Experimental assessment of the "acoustic route" with perforated tympanic membranes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2135-2153

  Voss, Susan E ^a   Rosowski, John J ^b,c,d   Merchant, Saumil N ^b,c,d   Peake, William T ^b,d,e  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; AUDITION; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERFORATING;

COCHLEA; DIRECT ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMAN EARS; MIDDLE-EAR CAVITIES; NON-OSSICULAR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; PERFORATED TYMPANIC MEMBRANES; SOUND-PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; EARDRUM PERFORATION; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL BONE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BONE CONDUCTION; EAR CANAL; EAR OSSICLES; EAR, MIDDLE; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; OVAL WINDOW, EAR; ROUND WINDOW, EAR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TEMPORAL BONE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION;

EID: 34848910697     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2769617     Document Type: Article

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