An incremental excitation scale for cochlear implants

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 50-55

  Blamey, Peter J ^a   Dickson, Bonar ^b   Grant, Lois M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRODES; PATIENT MONITORING; SPEECH;

ELECTRIC PULSES; IMPLANT PATIENTS; LOUDNESS MATCHING PROCEDURE;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

EID: 2942705896     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1687471     Document Type: Article

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