The EarLens system: New sound transduction methods

Hearing Research

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 104-113

  Perkins, Rodney ^a   Fay, Jonathan P ^a   Rucker, Paul ^a   Rosen, Micha ^a   Olson, Lisa ^a   Puria, Sunil ^a,b  

^a EarLens Corp   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic hearing; Hearing aid; Photonic hearing; Sound processing; Speech in noise; Transducers; Tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; EARDRUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAGNET; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR, EXTERNAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; NOISE; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PRESSURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; VIBRATION;

EID: 77952582938     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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