Kurtosis corrected sound pressure level as a noise metric for risk assessment of occupational noises

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1475-1481

  Goley, G Steven ^a   Song, Won Joon ^a   Kim, Jay H ^a  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NOISE; CORRECTION TERMS; CURRENT NOISE; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN EXPOSURES; IMPULSIVE NOISE; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE METRICS; OCCUPATIONAL NOISE; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; AUDITION; NOISE POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINCHILLA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; NOISE INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; PROCEDURES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953044514     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3533691     Document Type: Article

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