The development of a masking device for tinnitus patients

Author

López-Reyna, Carlos E. ; Bagla, Ritu ; Lombard, Kathleen M. ; Saunders, James C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Bioeng., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

7-9 Apr 1995

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

11

Abstract

Over 60 million Americans suffer from “ringing-in-the-ears” or tinnitus. This disorder ranges from mildly annoying to debilitating, and at the moment there is no known effective medical treatment. Acoustic masking of the subjective tinnitus sound does provide a measure a relief for many patients. A narrow band masking device that is tunable and potentially portable is described in this report

Keywords

acoustic filters; acoustic noise; band-pass filters; ear; hearing; patient treatment; programmable filters; white noise; 0 to 10.2 kHz; acoustic masking; debilitating disorder; disorder; masking device; medical treatment; mildly annoying disorder; narrow band masking device; portable device; ringing-in-the-ears; subjective tinnitus sound; tinnitus patients; tunable device; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic noise; Biomedical acoustics; Biomedical engineering; Digital filters; Frequency; Medical treatment; Narrowband; Speech; White noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995 Fourteenth Southern

Conference_Location

Shreveport, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2083-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBEC.1995.514415

Filename

514415