Better speech perception in noise with an assistive multimicrophone array for hearing aids

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 411-420

  Luts, Heleen ^a   Maj, Jean Baptiste ^a   Soede, Wim ^b,c   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ARDEA   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MICROPHONE; NOISE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4944242673     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000145109.90767.ba     Document Type: Article

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