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Standard audiograms for the IEC 60118-15 measurement procedure.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20724358     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
For the characterization of hearing aids, a new test method has been defined in the new International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard 60118-15. For this characterization, the hearing aid will be set to actual user settings as programmed by standard fitting software from the hearing aid manufacturer. To limit the variation of programming outcomes, 10 standard audiograms, which cover the entire range of audiograms met in clinical practice, have been defined. This article describes how the set of standard audiograms has been developed. This set of standard audiogram has been derived by a vector quantization analysis method on a database of 28,244 audiograms. Using this analysis method, sets of typical audiograms have been obtained of sizes 12 and 60. It turned out that the smaller set could not be used for selecting audiograms as sloping audiograms were absent. Therefore, the larger set has been analyzed to provide seven standard audiograms for flat and moderately sloping hearing loss and three standard audiograms for steep hearing loss.
Authors:
Nikolai Bisgaard; Marcel S M G Vlaming; Martin Dahlquist
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Trends in amplification     Volume:  14     ISSN:  1940-5588     ISO Abbreviation:  Trends Amplif     Publication Date:  2010 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-08-20     Completed Date:  2010-12-13     Revised Date:  2011-05-12    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9709254     Medline TA:  Trends Amplif     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  113-20     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
GN Resound, Ballerup, Denmark.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Acoustic Stimulation
Audiometry, Pure-Tone / standards*
Auditory Threshold
Equipment Design
Hearing Aids*
Humans
Materials Testing
Models, Statistical
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Software
Sweden

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