Effects of ear-canal pressurization on middle-ear bone- and air-conduction responses

Hearing Research

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 204-215

  Homma, Kenji ^a   Shimizu, Yoshitaka ^c,d   Kim, Namkeun ^b   Du, Yu ^a   Puria, Sunil ^b,c,d  

^a Adaptive Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory biomechanics; Bone conduction; Ear canal air pressure; Hearing protection; Middle ear dynamics; Middle ear response

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY OSSICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BONE CONDUCTION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR CONDUCTION; EAR PROTECTION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE EAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL BONE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AIR; BONE CONDUCTION; CADAVER; EAR CANAL; EAR OSSICLES; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; EAR, MIDDLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 77952582067     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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