Identification of the impedance model of an implanted cochlear prosthesis from intracochlear potential measurements

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2174-2183

  Vanpoucke, Filiep J ^a,c,d   Zarowski, Andrzej J ^b,e,f,g   Peeters, Stefaan A ^b,c,h,i,j  

^a Advanced Bionics   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d IEEE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^f SINT AUGUSTINUS HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^g Belg Roy Soc of Hd/Neck Surgs ^*  (Belgium)

^h ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

ⁱ Medical Electronics Laboratory   (Belgium)

^j Roy Flemish Acad of Sci and Arts   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Current distribution; Identification; Impedance measurement; Implantable biomedical devices

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR FUNCTIONS; HEARING LOSS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NEURAL EXCITATION;

AUDITION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; INNER EAR; INTRATROCHLEAR POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NERVE STIMULATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; RELIABILITY; TECHNOLOGY;

COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR MICROPHONIC POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 9644260485     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.836518     Document Type: Article

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