Compression for Clinicians

Theodore H. Venema (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

1998
Singular Publishing Group Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-56593-973-8 (ISBN)

Infos

An overview of hearing aid fitting is presented in this text, comparing and contrasting the many types of compression and describing their clinical applications. Included is a short synopsis of outer and inner hair cell function, as it relates to an increasingly common type of compression.

Inhalt

The cochlea, hair cells and compression; inner and outer hair cells; damaged hair cells and presbycusis; why so many different hearing aid fitting methods?; lenses for the eye versus hearing aids for the ear; the evolution of hearing aid fitting methods; loudness growth and fitting considerations; loudness growth; compression and normal loudness growth; suprathreshold fitting methods, compression and loudness growth; the many faces of compression; a word about input/output graphs; input compression versus output compression; compression controls - conventional versus "Tk"; output limiting compression versus wide dynamic range compression; BILL, TILL, and multi-channel WDRC hearing aids; dynamic aspects of compression; interaction between static and dynamic aspects of compression; programmable and digital hearing aids; expanding on compression; hearing aids, hair cells and the travelling wave revisited; common clinical combinations of compression; an example of multi-channel WDRC - Unitron's sound FX; the clinical "Spectrum" of hearing aids; fitting hearing aids - the art and the science.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.1998
• Zusatzinfo: references
• Verlagsort: Albany
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 227 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► HNO-Heilkunde
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Medizintechnik
• ISBN-10: 1-56593-973-5 / 1565939735
• ISBN-13: 978-1-56593-973-8 / 9781565939738
• Zustand: Neuware