Conception and design of an automated insertion tool for cochlear implants

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5593-5596

  Hussong, Andreas ^a   Rau, Thomas ^b   Eilers, Hubertus ^a   Baron, Stephan ^a   Heimann, Bodo ^a   Leinung, Martin ^b   Lenarz, Thomas ^b   Majdani, Omid ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS;

AUTOMATED INSERTION TOOLS; CADAVER SPECIMEN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; MECHATRONIC DEVICES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; OPTIMAL ELECTRODES; SYNTHETIC MODELS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; IMPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61849167448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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