Middle-ear function at high frequencies quantified with advanced bone-conduction measures

Hearing Research

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 85-92

  Popelka, Gerald R ^a   Telukuntla, Goutham ^a   Puria, Sunil ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Air conduction; Bone conduction; Conductive mechanism; High frequency; Magnetostrictive transducer; Sensorineural mechanism

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MIDDLE EAR; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; EAR, MIDDLE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 77952584616     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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