Sound field of typical single-bed hospital wards

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 884-892

  Xie, Hui ^a   Kang, Jian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic simulation; Furniture; Hospital; Intensive care; Reverberation; Single bed ward; Sound field; Sound level

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS; FURNITURE; INTENSIVE CARE; SINGLE-BED WARD; SOUND LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOSPITALS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

EID: 84861628340     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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