The surprising performance of present-day cochlear implants

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 969-972

  Wilson, Blake S ^a,b   Dorman, Michael F ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory prosthesis; Cochlear implant; Deafness; Hearing; Neural prosthesis; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PHYSIOLOGY;

AUDITORY PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; NEURAL PROSTHESIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

PROSTHETICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; PHONATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 34249299762     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.893505     Document Type: Article

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