The impact of the microphone position on the frequency analysis of snoring sounds

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 266, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1315-1322

  Herzog, Michael ^a   Kühnel, Thomas ^b   Bremert, Thomas ^a   Herzog, Beatrice ^a   Hosemann, Werner ^a   Kaftan, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency analysis; Microphone; OSAS; Recording; Snoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR COUPLED MICROPHONE; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; BODY CONTACT MICROPHONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; NECK; PATIENT POSITIONING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNORING;

ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SNORING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 67650723140     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-008-0858-7     Document Type: Article

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