• DocumentCode
    1218737
  • Title

    Current Distributions Produced Inside and Outside the Cochlea from a Scala Tympani Electrode Array

  • Author

    Ifukube, Tohru ; White, Robert L.

  • Author_Institution
    Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Hokkaido University
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1987
  • Firstpage
    883
  • Lastpage
    890
  • Abstract
    Current distributions produced from a monopolar electrode with eight channels made by Pt¿Ir balls were obtained outside the cochlear of a human cadaver in saline solution in order to provide information that can lead to a design of the optimal stimulus system for multichannel cochlear implants.
  • Keywords
    Auditory implants; Biomedical measurements; Cadaver; Cochlear implants; Connectors; Current distribution; Current measurement; Electrodes; Humans; Speech processing; Biomedical Engineering; Cochlea; Cochlear Implants; Electrodes; Humans; Scala Tympani;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TBME.1987.326009
  • Filename
    4122463