Measurement of hearing aid internal noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2521-2528

  Lewis, James D ^a   Goodman, Shawn S ^a   Bentler, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK CANCELLATIONS; ADAPTIVE FEATURES; DIGITAL NOISE; HEARING AID; INPUT NOISE; INTERNAL NOISE; NOISE LEVELS; PRIMARY SOURCES; PROCESSING CONDITION; REAL-WORLD; STIMULUS LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES;

AMPLIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AID; MATERIALS TESTING; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 77954040538     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3327808     Document Type: Article

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