Rise Time of Pure-Tone Stimuli in Brain Stem Response Audiometry
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Audiology
- Vol. 20 (2), 101-112
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00206098109072688
Abstract
In order to identify the area of a pure tone stimulus effective for evoking the auditory brain stem response (ABR), the amplitude, latency and detectability of the response were measured as a function of stimulus rise time with a fixed onset slope of a linear-shaped envelope. The test was performed on 8 normal adults with 2- and 0.5-kHz tone pips at various intensity levels from 50 to 15 dB HL. The ABR was elicited by the very early part of the stimulus, and the succeeding part had little effect in eliciting the response, if the initial part was intense enough to evoke the response. At lower intensity levels, where the initial part did not reach an intensity level sufficient to evoke a full size response, a limited period of the succeeding part participated in evoking the response. This effective duration of the stimulus was estimated at 1.5 ms for 2 kHz and at 3 ms for 0.5 kHz. From these results, the authors propose that acceptable rise times of pure-tone stimuli for brain stem response audiometry are 3, 2, 1.5 and 1 ms for tone pips of 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 kHz, respectively. Désirant mettre en évidence la portion temporelle du stimulus tonal capable de donner une réponse évoquée du tronc cérébral, nous avons mesuré chez 8 adultes normaux, l'amplitude, la latence et la détectabilité des réponses en fonction du temps d'attaque des stimuli (pips tonals de 2 kHz et 0,5 kHz, de 50 à 15 dB HL), la pente de l'enveloppe linéaire de ces derniers étant fixe. Nos résultats montrent que les réponses évoquées du tronc cérébral apparaissent a) quand l'intensité est suffisante: par les tous premiers moments du stimulus, les moments suivants intervenant très peu; b) quand l'intensité est plus faible: par les premiers moments et aussi par une petite portion des moments suivants. II nous est ainsi apparu que la portion temporelle valable pouvait ětre estimée à 1,5 ms pour 2 kHz et à 3 ms pour 0,5 kHz. Nous proposons donc en audiométrie des réponses évoquées du tronc cérébral et pour des pips tonals à enveloppe linéaire de 0,5, 1, 2 et 4 kHz, des durées d'attaque du stimulus de 3, 2, 1,5 et 1 ms, respectivement.Keywords
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