Communications Medicine (Jun 2022)

Performing tympanometry using smartphones

  • Justin Chan,
  • Ali Najafi,
  • Mallory Baker,
  • Julie Kinsman,
  • Lisa R. Mancl,
  • Susan Norton,
  • Randall Bly,
  • Shyamnath Gollakota

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00120-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Chan et al. develop an open-source smartphone-based tympanometer to evaluate middle ear function. The authors test their device in a group of paediatric patients at an audiology clinic and report a high level of agreement in audiologists’ classification of tympanograms produced using this device compared with a commercial device.