Table 2. Tinnitus characteristics.

Sub	Age	Sex	Tinnitus laterality	Tinnitus duration (y)	Incident triggering tinnitus	Tinnitus quality	Tinnitus Pitch (kHz)	Tinnitus Loudness (dB SL)	MML (dB SL)	Severity	TRQ
10	55	m	right ear	2	unknown	pure-tone	3	5	16	mild	32
13	50	m	right ear	4	noise trauma	n/a	6	16	30	n/a	29
16	65	f	right ear	3	unknown	pure-tone	11	18	43	mild	33
18	67	f	right ear	5	unknown	ringing/pulse	6	20	n/a	mild	3
19	31	m	right ear	14	noise trauma	ringing	10	45	53	mild	25
29 (*)	49	m	right ear	1	blow on the ear	pure-tone	8	23	65	mild	32
Avg	52.8	-	-	4.8	-	-	7.4	21	41	-	24
7¶	49	m	left ear	6	car accident	pure-tone	8	35	70	mild	26
9	53	m	left ear	4	unknown	ringing	8	23	40	mild	9
11	62	f	left ear	6	flushing the ear	buzzing	8	15	48	severe	74
14	42	f	left ear	12	unknown	cricket	14	20	68	mild	61
17	37	f	left ear	9	unknown	hissing	8	25	43	severe	89
27 (*)	43	f	left ear	1	unknown	ringing	0,75	12	n/a	mild	n/a
28 (*)	40	m	left ear	0.5	unknown	pure-tone	8	13	19	severe	n/a
30 (*)	46	m	left ear	2	unknown	pure-tone	9	38	38	mild	n/a
Avg	46.5	-	-	5.1	-	-	8.0	23	46	-	52

n/a: not available; n: no; y: yes;

^¶one subject (subject #7) was excluded from analyses due to gross motion artefacts that occurred during the imaging sessions; MML: minimum masking level; TRQ: Tinnitus reaction Questionnaire.

(*) indicate new subjects with respect to Lanting et al., (2008) [9].