A new method for measuring the psychoacoustical properties of tinnitus

Bożena Kostek; Tomasz Poremski

doi:10.1186/1746-1596-8-209

A new method for measuring the psychoacoustical properties of tinnitus

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information, select the tinnitus treatment and quantitatively substantiate its effects, the measurement of the Tinnitus psychoacoustic parameters should be made an inherent part of the Tinnitus therapy. Methods For this purpose the multimedia-based sound synthesizer has been proposed for testing tinnitus and the results obtained this way are compared with the outcome of the audiometer-based Wilcoxon test. The method has been verified with 14 patients suffering from tinnitus. Results The experiments reveal capabilities, limitations, advantages and disadvantages of both methods. The synthesizer enables the patient to estimate his/her tinnitus more than twice as fast as the audiometer and makes the information on the tinnitus character perception more accurate. The analysis of the Wilcoxon test results shows that there are statistically important differences between the two tests. Conclusions Patients using the synthesizer operate the software application themselves and thus get more involved in testing. Moreover, they do not concentrate on describing verbally their tinnitus, which could be difficult for some of them. As a result, the test outcome is closer to the perceived tinnitus. However, the more complex

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Bożena Kostek prof. dr hab. inż.
Tomasz Poremski
- Dział Szkoleń i Rozwoju GEERS Akustyka słuchu

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: Diagnostic Pathology no. 8, edition 1,
ISSN: 1746-1596
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2013
Bibliographic description:: Kostek B., Poremski T.: A new method for measuring the psychoacoustical properties of tinnitus// Diagnostic Pathology. -Vol. 8, iss. 1 (2013), s.209-
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1186/1746-1596-8-209
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