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
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;
Journal_Title :
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBME.1987.326009
