Wideband reflectance in newborns: Normative regions and relationship to hearing-screening results

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 599-610

  Hunter, Lisa L ^a   Feeney, M Patrick ^b   Lapsley Miller, Judi A ^c   Jeng, Patricia S ^c   Bohning, Susie ^d  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Mimosa Acoustics Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE EAR; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 77956442866     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181e40ca7     Document Type: Article

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