• Schriftenr Ver Wasser Boden Lufthyg · Jan 1993

    The influence of military low-altitude flight noise on the inner ear of the guinea pig. Part I: Hearing threshold measurements.

    • W Gehrig, P Meyer, H Ising, K D Kuhl, R Schmidt, and W Grützmacher.
    • Schriftenr Ver Wasser Boden Lufthyg. 1993 Jan 1; 88: 368-78.

    AbstractThe auditory thresholds of about 60 anaesthetized guinea pigs were determined at 3 or 4 frequencies between 2 and 20 kHz using the acoustically evoked brain stem potentials. The animals were then exposed to electro-acoustically reproduced MLAF noise with peak levels between 120 and 130 dB(A). The exposure occurred either once or else four times within either 3 or 60 minutes. The level of noise increased at 7.5 and 75 dB/s (slow and fast increase). TTS was then determined. PTS was measured one week later. In over half the animals, exposure to rapidly increasing noise level with a peak of 126 dB(A) induced PTS > or = 30 dB for at least one frequency. Exposure to a slowly increasing noise level with the same peak provoked significantly smaller PTS. 4 exposures to a rapidly rising noise level within 3 minutes induced significantly smaller PTS than the same dosage within 60 minutes. Only in the latter case was PTS greater than TTS.

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