Principles of design and biological approaches for improving the selectivity of cochlear implant electrodes

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  O'Leary, Stephen J ^a   Richardson, Rachael R ^b   McDermott, Hugh J ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL APPROACH; CLOSE PROXIMITY; COCHLEAR ELECTRODES; COCHLEAR IMPLANT ELECTRODES; COCHLEAR IMPLANT RECIPIENTS; CURRENT FLOWS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRODE CONTACTS; ELECTRODE INTERACTIONS; ELECTRODE SURFACES; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS; NEUROTROPHINS; PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN;

DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY); ELECTRODES;

NEURONS;

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; POLYMER;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGY; BIOSAFETY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL REGENERATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONSTIPATION; CORNEA ULCER; DENDRITE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERILYMPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SPIRAL LAMINA; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70449729454     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/6/5/055002     Document Type: Article

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