Letter: Reply to the Comment on International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the constructor of multilingual speech test by Akeroyd et al by

International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the construction of multilingual speech tests. ICRA Working Group on Multilingual Speech Tests.

OBJECTIVE To provide guidelines for the development of two types of closed-set speech-perception tests that can be applied and interpreted in the same way across languages. The guidelines cover the digit triplet and the matrix sentence tests that are most commonly used to test speech recognition in noise. They were developed by a working group on Multilingual Speech Tests of the International C...

Environmental gamma radiation: a comment (Letter to the Editor)

Editor, I read the recent publication by Toossi et al. with a great interest (1). Toossi et al. concluded that “Average gonad and bone marrow doses for North Khorasan, Boshehr and Hormozgan provinces were less than the corresponding values for normal area (2).” There are some facts on this report to be concerned. I agree that the detected levels might be high in the mentioned area, but th...

Improving Voice Outcomes After Injury to the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

Comment to the Letter to the Editor: Subjective Symptoms Related to GSM Radiation from Mobile Phone Base Stations: a cross-sectional study In reply to the comments by Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi

Letter to editor

Dear Prof. Mozdarani,I would like to discuss about some important aspects regarding the article published in, "Iran. J. Radiat. Res., 2012 10(2): 89-94“ with title of “Patient doses from X-ray computed tomography examinations by a single-array detector unit: Axial versus spiral mode" by Ghavami et al. (1), so according to journal policy and in suitable manner please ask the authors to rep...