Direct measurement of the wavelength of sound waves in the human skull

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 136-145

  McKnight, Carmen L ^a   Doman, Darrel A ^a   Brown, Jeremy A ^a   Bance, Manohar ^a   Adamson, Robert B A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIBLE FREQUENCY; COMPLEX MODAL; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HARMONIC EXCITATION; HUMAN SKULL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIBRATIONS; VIBRATION DATA; VIBRATORY RESPONSE;

ACOUSTICS;

PHYSICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE CONDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EQUIPMENT; HEARING AID; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LASER; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKULL; SOUND; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; BONE CONDUCTION; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; LASERS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84872065170     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4768801     Document Type: Article

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