Current steering and current focusing with a high-density intracochlear electrode array

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1049-1052

  Falcone, Jessica D ^a   Bhatti, Pamela T ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING FUNCTION; AUDITORY-NERVE FIBERS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT RECIPIENTS; CURRENT STEERING; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; FIRST-ORDER; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-DENSITY; HIGH-DENSITY ARRAYS; INTRACOCHLEAR ELECTRODE ARRAYS; LOW POWER; NEURAL FIRING; NEURAL POPULATIONS; PROBABILITY MODELS; SOUND PERCEPTION; STIMULATION TECHNIQUES;

AUDITION; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FOCUSING;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY RECEPTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; ELECTRODE IMPLANT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84861924276     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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