Cochlear implants: Current status and future potential

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-401

  Cosetti, Maura K ^a   Waltzman, Susan B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bilateral implantation; cochlear implant candidacy; cochlear implants; deafness; design; electro acoustic stimulation; electrodes; partial deafness; programming; speech processing

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC; PARTIAL DEAFNESS; PROGRAMMING;

DIGITAL FILTERS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISABILITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; REIMPLANTATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955783948     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erd.11.12     Document Type: Review

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