Ethical issues in the development of a vestibular prosthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2265-2268

  Poppendieck, Wigand ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a   Merfeld, Daniel ^b   Guyot, Jean Philippe ^c   Micera, Silvestro ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CLINICAL STUDY; ETHICAL ASPECTS; ETHICAL ISSUES; EUROPEAN PROJECT; IN-VITRO; MEDICAL SYSTEMS; NEURAL PROSTHESIS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

PROSTHETICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ETHICS; EUROPE; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EUROPE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84862249361     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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