| Zugriffsnummer | 44482 |
| Dokumenttyp | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Peer Review | ohne Peer Review |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Titel | Metrology for medical acoustics and audiology |
| Autor(in); Institution |
Bug, Marion U.; 1.6, Schall, PTB-Braunschweig
Burke, Elisa; 1.6, Schall, PTB-Braunschweig
Fedtke, Thomas; 1.6, Schall, PTB-Braunschweig
Koch, Christian; 1.6, Schall, PTB-Braunschweig
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| Quelle/Jahr | Metrology in Medicine. PTB-Mitteilungen: 130 (2020), 2, 7 - 14 |
| ISSN | 0030-834X |
| DOI | |
| Verlag | Braunschweig [u.a.]: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt |
| Zusammenfassung | Hearing plays an important role in shaping human life with high social and individual quality and comfortable wellbeing. Diagnosis, assessment and conservation of hearing is a key factor and plays an important role in health care also with respect to an increasingly elderly population. Considering a simultaneously rising anticipation of wellbeing by many individuals in European countries, meeting the requirements of quality of all processes involved represents a challenge for the heath care system of a country. A comprehensive hearing assessment requires sophisticated measurements of a variety of variables. To ensure reliability and high or at least sufficient selectivity and specificity of a diagnosis, all measurements, but most importantly any quantitative measurements, should be underpinned by a quality management process to realise traceability to appropriate standards and references for all measurements. In this publication a short overview about PTB contributions to the metrological underpinning in the field of medical acoustics and audiology is presented. This includes the determination and distribution of important reference data describing the status of hearing. Novel methods will be developed as, for example the processing of transient stimuli which are preferentially applied in objective audiological techniques. Many activities are made in relation to the medical device regulation which currently became effective. In addition, research work is under way dealing with current topics as the measurement and perception of infrasound. |
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| Themenbereich der Metrologie | Akustik, Ultraschall, Beschleunigung |