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    A multi-channel hearing prosthesis for profound-to-total hearing loss
    Money, D. K. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Tong, Y. C. ; Patrick, J. F. ; Seligman, P. M. ; Crosby, P. A. ; Kuzma, J. A. ( 1984)
    A multi-channel cochlear implant hearing prosthesis providing 22 separate channels of stimulation has been developed. The electronics for the implantable receiver-stimulator have been incorporated on a single chip, using digital circuits and employing CMOS technology. The chip is enclosed in a titanium capsule with platinum/ceramic electrode feed-throughs. A pocket-sized speech processor and directional microphone extract the following speech parameters: signal amplitude, fundamental frequency and formant frequency. The fundamental frequency is coded as electric pulse rate, and formant frequency by electrode position. The speech processor has been realized using hybrid circuits and CMOS gate arrays. The multi-channel prosthesis has undergone a clinical trial on four postlingually deaf patients with profound-total hearing losses. The speech perception results indicate that they were able to obtain open-set speech recognition scores for phonetically balanced words, CID sentences and spondees. In all cases the tests showed significant improvements when using the cochlear prosthesis combined with lipreading compared to lipreading alone.
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    A multi-channel cochlear prosthesis for profound-to-total hearing loss
    Money, D. K. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Tong, Y. C. ; Patrick, J. F. ; Seligman, P. M. ; Crosby, P. A. ; Kuzma, J. A. ( 1984)
    A multi-channel cochlear prosthesis for profound-total hearing loss has been developed by the University of Melbourne and Nucleus Limited. Clinical trials have shown that the prosthesis provides significant help for postlingually deaf adult patients (lost hearing after normal language patterns have been established). The prosthesis helps the patients understand running speech when combined with lipreading, and a proportion obtain significant open-set speech scores for electrical stimulation alone. The patients with these open-set score can use the device in situations where lipreading is not possible, for example, to converse over the telephone. The prosthesis consists of an externally worn, pocket-sized speech-processor, a headset and an implanted receiver/stimulator and electrode array. The headset contains an .ear-level directional microphone that picks up the speech signal. The speech processor encodes the speech as a series of electrical pulses on the electrode array. The data describing these pulses and the power required to produce them, are sent to the receiver/stimulator from .a radio-frequency coil mounted on the headset. The receiver/stimulator decodes the data and delivers the speech signal as a series of biphasic electrical pulses to the 22 electrodes which have been gently passed along the scala tympani during implantation.