Effects of Microphone Position on Snore Signal Quality and Patient Comfort

International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2130-2133

  Ng, Andrew Keong ^a   Ho, Zhi Jie ^b   Koh, Tong San ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMFORT LEVEL; HUMAN COMFORTS; IMPULSE RESPONSE ANALYSIS; MICROPHONE POSITIONS; OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA; OPTIMAL SIGNALS; PATIENT COMFORT; SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS; SIGNAL QUALITY; SLEEP LABORATORIES; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL;

DISPLAY DEVICES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SLEEP RESEARCH;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 67249155761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICOSP.2008.4697567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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