natus Madsen A450, Reference Manual

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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
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1.1 The Otosuite Audiometry Module 6
1.1.1 Noah 7
1.2 About this manual
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1.3 Typographical conventions
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1.3.1 Navigation 8
1.3.2 Intended use 9
2 Navigating in the Otosuite Audiometry module
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2.1 The Audiometry module main window
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2.2 Toolbar icons and menus 11
2.2.1 File menu 12
2.2.2 Edit menu
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2.2.3 View menu
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2.2.4 Measurement menu 14
2.2.5 Tools menu 15
2.3 The Patient Responder indicator
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2.4 The Masking Assistant
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2.5 The control panel 17
2.6 The stimulus bar 22
2.6.1 Test controls
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2.6.2 The Tone stimulus bar
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2.6.3 The Speech stimulus bar 24
2.7 The Tone test screen 25
2.7.1 The work area in the Tone screen
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2.7.2 The audiogram
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2.7.3 Curves and symbols selection 28
2.7.3.1 Selecting a symbol or curve 28
2.7.4 Compare audiograms
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2.7.5 Tone feature boxes
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2.7.6 Tone editing options 31
2.8 Work-flow related features 32
2.8.1 Selecting orientation
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2.8.2 Automatic frequency/level shift when storing
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2.8.3 Stimulus duration 33
2.8.4 Ear shift frequency and level setting 33
2.8.5 Saving non-stimulus channel as masking
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2.9 The Speech test screen
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2.9.1 Creating and editing the speech test table 35
2.9.2 Selecting word or phoneme scoring 35
2.9.3 Selecting speech stimulus
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2.9.4 Scoring words using integrated Otosuite speech material
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2.9.5 Scoring words using external sound source 43
2.9.6 Scoring phonemes using integrated Otosuite speech material 44
2.9.7 Scoring phonemes using external sound source
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2.9.8 Saving source levels for speech material
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2.9.9 Speech editing options - tabular view 47
2.9.10 Storing SNR for Speech testing 49
2.9.11 Speech feature boxes
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