Cochlear Implants

The cochlear implant is a device that bypasses a nonfunctional inner ear and stimulates the auditory nerve directly. Written by the "father" of the multi-electrode implant, this comprehensive text and reference gives an account of the principles underlying cochlear implants and their clinical application. For the clinician, the book will provide guidance in the treatment of patients; for the engineer and researcher it will provide the background for further research; and for the student, it will provide a through understanding of the subject.

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Autorentext
The cochlear implant is a device that bypasses a nonfunctional inner
ear and stimulates the auditory nerve directly. Written by the
"father" of the multi-electrode implant, this comprehensive text and
reference gives an account of the principles underlying cochlear
implants and their clinical application. For the clinician, the book
will provide guidance in the treatment of patients; for the engineer
and researcher it will provide the background for further research;
and for the student, it will provide a through understanding of the
subject.

Klappentext

Soun is nought but air y-broke Geoffrey Chaucer end of the 14th century Traditionally, acoustics has formed one of the fundamental branches of physics. In the twentieth century, the ?eld has broadened considerably and become - creasingly interdisciplinary. At the present time, specialists in modern acoustics can be encountered not only in physics departments, but also in electrical and mechanical engineering departments, as well as in mathematics, oceanography, and even psychology departments. They work in areas spanning from musical instruments to architecture to problems related to speech perception. Today, six hundred years after Chaucer made his brilliant remark, we recognize that sound and acoustics is a discipline extremely broad in scope, literally covering waves and vibrations in all media at all frequencies and at all intensities. This series of scienti?c literature, entitled Modern Acoustics and Signal P- cessing (MASP), covers all areas of today s acoustics as an interdisciplinary?eld. It offers scienti?c monographs, graduate-level textbooks, and reference materials in such areas as architectural acoustics, structural sound and vibration, musical acoustics, noise, bioacoustics, physiological and psychological acoustics,speech, ocean acoustics, underwater sound, and acoustical signal processing.

Inhalt
A History.- Surgical Anatomy.- Surgical Pathology.- Neurobiology.- Electrophysiology.- Psychophysics.- Speech (Sound) Processing.- Engineering.- Preoperative Selection.- Surgery.- Rehabilitation and Habilitation.- Results.- Socioeconomics and Ethics.- Research Directions.