An in situ calibration for hearing thresholds

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1605-1611

  Withnell, Robert H ^a   Jeng, Patricia S ^b   Waldvogel, Kelly ^a   Morgenstein, Kari ^a   Allen, Jont B ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mimosa Acoustics Inc   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CALIBRATIONS; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; CURRENT PRACTICES; EAR CANALS; HEARING THRESHOLDS; HUMAN EARS; IN-SITU CALIBRATIONS; INPUT IMPEDANCES; MIDDLE EARS; PHYSICAL ASSEMBLIES; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS; SOUND PRESSURE WAVES; SOUND SOURCES; STANDING WAVES;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR CANAL; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; SOUND;

EID: 62249163653     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3075551     Document Type: Article

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