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) …

Comparison of ear-canal reflectance and umbo velocity in patients with conductive hearing loss: a preliminary study

HH Nakajima, DV Pisano, C Roosli, MA Hamade… - Ear and …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The goal of the present study was to investigate the clinical utility of
measurements of ear-canal reflectance (ECR) in a population of patients with conductive …

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 …

Characteristics of wideband acoustic immittance in patients with middle-ear dysfunction

CA Sanford, JE Brockett - Journal of the American Academy of …, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
Background: Wideband acoustic immittance (WAI) measurements are a relatively new class
of aural acoustic tests that have shown promise as useful tools for evaluating middle-ear …

Wideband reflectance tympanometry in normal adults

RH Margolis, GL Saly, DH Keefe - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic impedance/reflectance measurements were made at various ear-canal pressures
in 20 subjects with a clinical acoustic immittance instrument and an experimental …

Multiple frequency tympanometry: effects of ear canal volume compensation on static acoustic admittance and estimates of middle ear resonance

JE Shanks, RH Wilson, NK Cambron - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 1993 - ASHA
Three methods for compensating multiple frequency acoustic admittance measurements for
ear canal volume were studied in 26 men with normal middle ear transmission systems …

Maturation of the middle and external ears: acoustic power-based responses and reflectance tympanometry

DH Keefe, E Levi - Ear and hearing, 1996 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The maturation of the external and middle ear in the human infant has significant
effects on the interpretation of measured ear-canal responses to acoustic stimuli. A tutorial …

Middle ear resonance and acoustic immittance measures in children

WD Hanks, KJ Rose - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1993 - ASHA
This study established a normal middle ear resonance estimated from sweep frequency
tympanometry (250–2000 Hz) and established normal equivalent ear canal volume, static …

Sources of variability in reflectance measurements on normal cadaver ears

SE Voss, NJ Horton, RR Woodbury… - Ear and Hearing, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The development of acoustic reflectance measurements may lead to
noninvasive tests that provide information currently unavailable from standard audiometric …

Sources of variability in wideband energy reflectance measurements in adults

MP Feeney, B Stover, DH Keefe… - Journal of the …, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
Background: Wideband acoustic immittance measurements of the middle ear, such as
wideband energy reflectance (ER), can provide information about how the middle ear …