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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: Hear Res. 2018 May 19;365:149–164. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2018.05.014

Table 2:

Mean and standard deviation (SD) of peak pressure (in kPa) measured in the free field for each exposure level, and the gain in peak pressure level for each sensor relative to the free field pressure gauge (in dB re: free field). Abbreviations defined in Table 1.

Peak Pressure (kPa) Gain (dB re: free field)
Field FSurf Surf EAC SV ST ME
7 kPa Mean 7.59 +2.7 +0.3 +3.9 2.7 −2.5 −3.1
SD 1.89 1.7 1.4 5.3 5.3 5.3 6.9
N 16 16 16 14 13 13 11
28 kPa Mean 31.19 +4.8 +1.3 +4.8 −4.6 −5.1 −8.0
SD 3.10 1.4 1.5 6.9 6.2 6.5 9.3
N 14 14 14 12 11 11 9
55 kPa Mean 57.50 +4.3 +1.4 −0.6 −0.5 −0.6 −11.5
SD 4.46 0.6 1.7 5.8 2.1 4.2 17.5
N 6 6 6 4 4 4 4
83 kPa Mean 92.63 +4.6 −9.5 −6.4 −6.5 −6.0 −7.3
SD 1.82 2.5 13.3 3.0 5.0 6.6 1.2
N 6 6 6 6 5 5 3