Wideband acoustic-reflex test in a test battery to predict middle-ear dysfunction

Hearing Research

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 52-65

  Keefe, Douglas H ^a   Fitzpatrick, Denis ^a   Liu, Yi Wen ^a   Sanford, Chris A ^a   Gorga, Michael P ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic reflex; Medial olivocochlear efferent; Middle ear muscle; Newborn hearing screening

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TYMPANOMETRY; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR, MIDDLE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC;

EID: 77952584531     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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