Current Distributions Produced Inside and Outside the Cochlea from a Scala Tympani Electrode Array

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-34, Issue 11, 1987, Pages 883-890

  Ifukube, Tohru ^a   White, Robert L ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MONOPOLAR ELECTRODE; THERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRODES; HUMAN; SCALA TYMPANI; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROL, ELECTRIC VARIABLES - CURRENT;

COCHLEA; CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS; IMPLANTABLE ELECTRODES; SCALA TYMPANI ELECTRODE ARRAY;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 0023526304     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1987.326009     Document Type: Article

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