Low-frequency and high-frequency distortion product otoacoustic emission suppression in humans

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2172-2190

  Gorga, Michael P ^a   Neely, Stephen T ^a   Dierking, Darcia M ^a   Kopun, Judy ^a   Jolkowski, Kristin ^a   Groenenboom, Kristin ^a   Tan, Hongyang ^a   Stiegemann, Bettina ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

HIGH FREQUENCY DISTORTION PRODUCT; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION SUPPRESSION; SUPPRESSOR FREQUENCIES; SUPPRESSOR LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUNING CURVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COCHLEA; HUMANS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 41849108044     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2839138     Document Type: Article

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