Simultaneous measurement of middle-ear input impedance and forward/reverse transmission in cat

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 2187-2198

  Voss, Susan E ^a,b   Shera, Christopher A ^b,c  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INNER EARS; MIDDLE EARS;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STAPES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CATS; EAR CANAL; EAR, MIDDLE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; STAPES; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 6344256311     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1785832     Document Type: Article

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