The audiology of otosclerosis

AA Danesh, N Shahnaz, JW Hall - Otolaryngologic Clinics of …, 2018 - oto.theclinics.com
For many otologists and audiologists, otosclerosis is not a puzzling condition anymore.
Advances in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures have provided a vast number of patients …

An overview of wideband immittance measurements techniques and terminology: You say absorbance, I say reflectance

JJ Rosowski, S Stenfelt, D Lilly - Ear and hearing, 2013 - journals.lww.com
P−−−=++(,) cos () ω θ (1) ω= 2πf, and k= ω/c. Figure 2 schematizes the presence of a
forward and a backward wave traveling in a rigid tube of uniform cross-section. The tube is …

Energy reflectance and tympanometry in normal and otosclerotic ears

N Shahnaz, K Bork, L Polka, N Longridge, D Bell… - Ear and …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The major goal of this study was to examine differences in the middle ear
mechano-acoustical properties of normal ears and ears with surgically confirmed …

Wideband absorbance tympanometry using pressure sweeps: System development and results on adults with normal hearing

YW Liu, CA Sanford, JC Ellison… - The Journal of the …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
A system with potential for middle-ear screening and diagnostic testing was developed for
the measurement of wideband energy absorbance (EA) in the ear canal as a function of air …

Comparison of nine methods to estimate ear-canal stimulus levels

NN Souza, S Dhar, ST Neely, JH Siegel - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The reliability of nine measures of the stimulus level in the human ear canal was compared
by measuring the sensitivity of behavioral hearing thresholds to changes in the depth of …

Effects of middle-ear disorders on power reflectance measured in cadaveric ear canals

SE Voss, GR Merchant, NJ Horton - Ear and hearing, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Reflectance measured in the ear canal offers a noninvasive method to monitor the
acoustic properties of the middle ear, and few systematic measurements exist on the effects …

Normative wideband reflectance, equivalent admittance at the tympanic membrane, and acoustic stapedius reflex threshold in adults

MP Feeney, DH Keefe, LL Hunter, DF Fitzpatrick… - Ear and …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Wideband acoustic immittance (WAI) measures such as pressure reflectance,
parameterized by absorbance and group delay, equivalent admittance at the tympanic …

Wideband reflectance in normal Caucasian and Chinese school-aged children and in children with otitis media with effusion

AN Beers, N Shahnaz, BD Westerberg… - Ear and hearing, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Wideband reflectance (WBR) is a middle ear analysis technique that quantifies
frequency-specific sound conduction over a wide range of frequencies. One shortcoming of …

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

LL Hunter, MP Feeney, JAL Miller, PS Jeng… - Ear and …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To develop normative data for wideband middle-ear reflectance in a newborn
hearing-screening population and to compare test performance with 1-kHz tympanometry for …

Ear-canal reflectance, umbo velocity, and tympanometry in normal-hearing adults

JJ Rosowski, HH Nakajima, MA Hamade… - Ear and …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective: This study compares measurements of ear-canal reflectance (ECR) to other
objective measurements of middle ear function including audiometry, umbo velocity (VU) …