Towards an implantable vestibular prosthesis: The surgical challenges

Proceedings of the 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 40-43

  Constandinou, Timothy G ^a,b   Georgiou, Julius ^a   Doumanidis, Charalambos C ^a   Toumazou, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Implantable; Medical imaging; Microsurgery; Prosthesis; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROARRAYS; MICROELECTRODES; PROSTHETICS;

MICROELECTRODE ARRAYS; MICROSURGERY; RELIABLE IMPLANTATION;

SURGERY;

EID: 34548739001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2007.369606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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