Simultaneous intracochlear stimulation based on channel interaction compensation: Analysis and first results

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1907-1916

  Zierhofer, Clemens M ^a   Schatzer, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Channel interaction matrix; Cochlear implant; Decay constants; Simultaneous stimulation; Spatial channel interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECAY (ORGANIC); ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; METALLIZING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SET THEORY; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STANDARDS;

CHANNEL INTERACTIONS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT PATIENTS; CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; DECAY CONSTANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; N CHANNEL; PULSE AMPLITUDES; PULSE RATE; PULSE REPETITION RATE (PRR); SPEECH PERCEPTION; SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS; TRIDIAGONAL;

LINEAR EQUATIONS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PARAMETER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STANDARD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 45749134290     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.919839     Document Type: Article

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