by Stavros Hatzopoulos Ph.D.

January 2004

        SOFTWARE Updates: This month is dedicated to issues related to OAE software. Despite the interesting evolvement of neonatal screening using OAE technologies, the OAE software has reached a plateau for a number of year and new applications do not reach a commercial potential. The applications we intend to present relate to OAE simulators, OAE analysis and OAE signal processing. Our noted contributors include :


  •  Michael Berg : A presenation on cochlear Mechanics and OAE simulation.

  •  Eric LePage: On the commercial package NAL used for TEOAE analysis and post-processing.

    We will presenting more information on OAE database software in the month of January.

            MULTIMEDIA FILES: From this month you will have the chance to download multimedia files related to OAEs or cochlear mechanics. The main objective is to provide the OAE community with more advanced educational tools for teaching . A secondary objective is to resolve some issues of file-size and line-bandwidth. Please let us know if you have any problems downloading the files we have posted. You can access new inserted information in the Multimedia & Downloading section.

            OUR REVISION PLANS:    Usually academic books which have a relative high circulation index get through a revision process, after a few years in order to update the material. After one year and a half of being on-line we are thinking to do the same with the OAE material stored in the Portal's archives. The final revised version of the Portal will be on-line from 2004 and will include revision of the presented information AND a revision of the graphical interface. We would be very interested in getting some feedback on areas you believe we can improve. This includes the standard material in the various pages, the white papers, the powerpoint presentations, the areas we do not cover AND issues related to the graphical interface.