Evoked acoustic emissions from the human ear. I. Equipment and response parameters.
Using signal averaging technique, stimulated acoustic emissions can be recorded from the human ear with a probe in the external ear canal. An acoustic click stimulus was used, produced by half a sinusoid of 2 kHz with the polarity corresponding to the rarefaction mode. A number of different techniques were developed in order to evaluate the latency and configuration of the emissions objectively. Recordings from a normal-hearing subject served as an example and a clear response could be traced down and below the psychoacoustic threshold. The threshold was elevated and the response pattern altered when a sensorineural hearing loss was induced by ingestion of acetylsalicylate. No response could be recorded from a deaf ear with an intact eardrum and a mobile ossicular chain.
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