In vivo characterization of piezoelectric transducers for implantable hearing aids

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 784-795

  Javel, Eric ^a,d   Grant, Iain L ^c   Kroll, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b St Croix Medical Inc   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Implantable hearing aid; Sensorineural hearing loss; Transducer

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; CAT; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EARDRUM; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FORCE; GEOMETRY; HEARING AID; LASER; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERFORMANCE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; STAPES; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR NERVE; EAR OSSICLES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEARING AIDS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STAPES; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0141789607     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200309000-00016     Document Type: Article

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