Do positron emission tomographic scans measure quality of life?

✍ Scribed by David L. Schiedermayerm; John La Pumam

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.410240225

✦ Synopsis

sampling error. I believe a correlation exists in normal individuals, but we may not have quantified it accurately. My confidence on this point was recently increased by a totally independent sample, collected and scored by an audiologist colleague, Fred Cobb, at the VA Medical Center in Salem, VA. He studied 44 normal ears at 80 dB SL without attempting to optimize the waveforms for each subject. The I versus I-V regression line had a slope of -0.366 and a correlation coefficient of -0.31 (p = 0.025). The finding suggests that, even in normal individuals, wave I and wave V commonly originate from separate sites on the basilar membrane, as proposed by Eggermont and Don 111.