Otoacoustic emissions are frequently acquired from patients in a variety of body positions aside from the standard, seated orientation. Yet little knowledge is available regarding whether these deviations will produce nonpathological changes to the clinical results obtained. The present study aimed to describe the effects of body position on the distortion-product otoacoustic emissions of 60 no...

Noise exposure was assessed in college students using dosimeters. Hearing sensitivity was measured using pure-tone thresholds and distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Results indicate music majors are exposed to higher levels of noise due to rehearsal compared to their non-music major peers.

BACKGROUND Distortion product otoacoustic emission measures (DPOAE) verifies, among other characteristics, the emergence and growth rate of the DPOAE response according to sound stimulus intensity (growth curve). AIM To estimate the DPOAE threshold in neonates according to the DPOAE growth curve at 2 kHz and 4 kHz, with stimulus presentation ranging between 35 and 70 dB SPL. METHOD Particip...

4 The influence of the second source of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) on DPOAE input/output functions 41 INTRODUCTION 42 I. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS 45 A. Subjects 45 B. Instrumentation and signal processing 45 C. Calibration 46 D. DPOAE measurements 46 II. DATA ANALYSIS 47 A. Separation of DPOAE components via time windowing 47 B. DPOAE threshold according to Boege and Janssen 5...

Cochlear function was monitored in adult gerbils using distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) during intraperitoneal injection of furosemide. All stimulus parameters were varied independently over a wide range, the stimulus frequencies f1 and f2 from 1 to 16 kHz, and the stimulus levels L1 and L2 from 20 to 80 dB SPL. The observed emissions at 2f1-f2 and 3f1-2f2 could be considered to...

Standard and abbreviated distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) procedures derived using the Grason Stadler Model 60 instrument were compared. The standard and abbreviated procedures were compared at frequencies of 1000, 1250, 1593, 2000, 2531, and 3187 Hz for 48 ears from 28 subjects. The subject pool included individuals with normal hearing and those with sensorineural hearing loss...

This study measured distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) and DPOAE input/output (I/O) curves to assess the effects of smoking on cochlear function. Twenty-four healthy adults, 12 smokers and 12 nonsmokers in the 20-30 years age range were selected based on self-reported histories of five to eight years of smoking or no smoking, respectively. All subjects received tympanometric scre...

Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) evoked by single tone pairs and three simultaneous tone pairs were recorded in 60 normal-hearing adult ears. The purpose was to replicate a previous study using the commercially available probe assembly of the Grason Stadler GSI 60 and including ear of presentation in the statistical analysis along with frequency and condition. DPOAE levels were...

OBJECTIVES The primary goal of this study was to test the ability of 2f1-f2 distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) to detect reduced cochlear function in the presence of normal behavioral sensitivity. DESIGN A prospective study was performed in normal-hearing young adults using simple and complex regression analyses to clarify the relationship between ultra-high frequency (UHF) hea...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the characteristic of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) amplitude, SNR and noise in preterm newborns. METHOD DPAOEs at the 2f1-f2 frequency were recorded from 59 ears of 31 preterm newborns and 35 ears of 19 healthy fullterm newborns in response to equilevel primary tones at postnatal 3 days to 1 week. Detailed test included the recording of DPAOEs, SNR...