Diagnosis of Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Using Wideband Tympanometry
Akira Ganaha, Nao Nojiri, Takeshi Nakamura, Teruyuki Higa, Shunsuke Kondo, Tetsuya Tono, George K Psillas · 2024
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Description
Akira Ganaha and co-authors test a sound-based ear check for a birth fault where a fluid canal in the inner ear runs wide. Their 2024 study uses wideband tympanometry, which plays a sweep of tones and reads how the ear takes them in. Patients with the fault were matched with healthy controls. The team compared tone uptake and the ear's natural pitch, and checked how each score split the groups.
Fault ears took in more sound at low tones and less at high tones than controls. Their natural pitch also ran lower, and it fell further as the canal grew wider. The pitch score split groups best, and the authors back the check as a needle-free way to flag the fault.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Akira Ganaha, Nao Nojiri, Takeshi Nakamura, Teruyuki Higa, Shunsuke Kondo, Tetsuya Tono, George K Psillas |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |