High-frequency audiometry: Air- and electric bone-conduction

Abstract

Normative values have been obtained for high-frequency air- and electric bone-conduction thresholds in different age groups. Reproducibility with both methods is of the same order of magnitude as with conventional audiometry. The two thresholds can be compared and the air-conduction/electric bone-conduction gap obtained by transforming the electric bone-conduction values to a dB notation by means of a formula containing a frequency-dependent constant