Cochlear implantation update: Contemporary preoperative imaging and future prospects - The dual modality approach as a standard of care

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 555-567

  Vlastarakos, Petros V ^a   Nikolopoulos, Thomas P ^b   Pappas, Sotirios ^c   Buchanan, Malcolm Alexander ^a   Bewick, Jessica ^a   Kandiloros, Dimitrios ^b  

^a LISTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c General Hospital of Corinth   (Greece)

Author keywords

Auditory; Central; Cochlear implant; CT; Imaging; MRI; Obliteration; Tomography

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

BOLD SIGNAL; CISTERNOGRAPHY; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INNER EAR; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MIDDLE EAR IMPLANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL BONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; TRENDS;

COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 77954237987     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erd.10.28     Document Type: Review

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