A Window into Hearing: Current Applications and Optimization of Otoacoustic Emissions

Dear Colleagues,

Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) are used to assess inner ear function across the lifespan. There are many applications for OAEs including, but not limited to, differential diagnosis, monitoring, and screening. Emerging applications in specialized clinical patients to population health opportunities drive the need for optimization of this tool. Translation of exciting new developments in calibration, optimizing collection parameters, measuring extended frequency bandwidths, and analysis are just some of the opportunities to advance the adoption of OAEs into clinical practice. Remote and telehealth OAE testing options are of particular interest in the current global environment. As the applications of OAE measures expand, there is a critical need to translate research findings into practice. Given the relative ease of acquiring OAE measurements, this metric of cochlear health is becoming widespread beyond those that specialize in auditory function. For these reasons, a resource for the measurement and interpretation of OAE results for clinical populations is essential. Papers addressing OAEs as metrics for sites of lesion testing, including auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder, tinnitus, virus detection, intracranial pressure, efferent function, and hearing genomics, monitoring for use in clinical trials, solvent, noise, and/or ototoxic drug exposure, as well as screening applications from newborns through school-aged children to adulthood are all welcome for this Special Issue.

Dr. Laura Dreisbach
Dr. Gayla L. Poling
Dr. Shawn S. Goodman
Guest Editors

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• otoacoustic emissions
• ototoxicity
• environmental/drug exposure
• extended bandwidth
• screening
• monitoring
• differential diagnosis
• tinnitus
• genetics
• telehealth
• population health
• calibration
• auditory efferents