The effect of age on the sinusoidal harmonic acceleration test, pseudorandom rotation test, velocity step test, caloric test, and vestibular-evoked myogenic potential test

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 84-94

  Maes, Leen ^a   Dhooge, Ingeborg ^a   D'Haenens, Wendy ^a   Bockstael, Annelies ^a   Keppler, Hannah ^a   Philips, Birgit ^a   Swinnen, Freya ^a   Vinck, Bart M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; ROTATION; SOUND DETECTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR TEST;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CALORIC TESTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; NERVE DEGENERATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; ROTATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149163539     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181b9640e     Document Type: Article

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