promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

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Medical Acoustics: Audiology and Voice

RWTH Aachen University

Docent
  • Janina Fels
Type
Lecture
Term
summer semester
Subject type
['Elective', 'Yes']
Study path
Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik u. Technische Informatik MSc, Physik MSc, Psychologie Bsc
Specialisation/branch
Biomedical Engineering, Medical Acoustics, Acoustics, Psychoacoustics
Keywords
"This lecture provides an overview on various acoustical methods of medical diagnosis and therapy. Upon completing this lecture, students understand the functionality of the auditory system and the human voice generation process, and are able to evaluate and analyze different voice and speech disorders. They are further able to apply this knowledge in the context of diagnostic and therapeutic systems, in order to analyze and further develop existent methods in the field of audiology and speech acoustics. Topics: Fundamentals of Acoustics, Resonators, modes and acoustic transmission lines, Hearing System, ENT: Physiology of hearing,Audiology, Psychoacoustics, ENT: Diagnosis of hearing impairment; Subjective and objective audiometry, Acoustic analysis of the vocal tract, Voice and speech disorders, Musical Acoustics, Singing voice"
Total ECTS credit
4.0
Examination
written exam
Language
Webpage
https://online.rwth-aachen.de/RWTHonline/ee/ui/ca2/app/desktop/#/slc.tm.cp/student/courses/382525?$c
Last modified
May 2, 2022, 10:15 p.m.

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