1. Evaluation of hearing and auditory nerve function by combining ABR, DPOAE and eABR tests into a single recording session
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Jose F. Guzman, Marek Polak, Jiao He, Omar S. Nehme, Fred F. Telischi, Syed Ahsan, Thomas R. Van De Water, Thomas J. Balkany, Adrien A. Eshraghi, and Rafael E. Delgado
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tone burst ,Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous ,Audiology ,Hearing ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,Animals ,Medicine ,Session (computer science) ,Nerve function ,Cochlear Nerve ,Electrodes ,Auditory masking ,Pure tone ,business.industry ,Hearing Tests ,General Neuroscience ,Auditory Threshold ,Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation ,Electric Stimulation ,Rats, Inbred F344 ,Rats ,Auditory brainstem response ,Acoustic Stimulation ,Auditory Perception ,Evoked Potentials, Auditory ,Brainstem ,business ,Auditory Physiology - Abstract
In this article, we describe an efficient method for testing both auditory receptor and auditory nerve function in a single recording session. Auditory receptor function is tested in response to pure tone, tone burst and click acoustic stimuli (i.e. distortion products of otoacoustic emissions, DPOAE; and auditory-evoked brainstem responses, ABR). The function of the auditory neurons and nerve is measured in response to direct electric current stimulation (i.e. electrically evoked auditory brainstem responses, eABR). All measurements were obtained from anesthetized laboratory rats during single recording sessions using hardware and software stimulation and analysis programs developed by Intelligent Hearing Systems, Miami, FL.
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- 2004
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