Long-Term Tinnitus Suppression with Linear Octave Frequency Transposition Hearing Aids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Peltier, Elisabeth ^a   Peltier, Cedric ^a   Tahar, Stephanie ^a   Alliot Lugaz, Evelyne ^a   Cazals, Yves ^b  

^a Laboratoire Chelles surdité   (France)

^b Aix Marseille University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LINEAR OCTAVE FREQUENCY TRANSPOSITION HEARING AID; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TINNITUS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

HEARING AIDS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; TINNITUS;

EID: 84871434177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051915     Document Type: Article

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