A low-power asynchronous interleaved sampling algorithm for cochlear implants that encodes envelope and phase information

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 138-149

  Sit, Ji Jon ^a   Simonson, Andrea M ^b   Oxenham, Andrew J ^b   Faltys, Michael A ^c   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ADVANCED BIONICS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous stimulation; Cochlear implant; Neural stimulation; Phase information

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; NEUROLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ASYNCHRONOUS INTERLEAVED SAMPLING (AIS) ALGORITHM; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; PHASE INFORMATION;

SPEECH CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PERCEPTION; SPEECH;

EID: 33846385278     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.883819     Document Type: Article

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