NIH R01 · 2025
Development of a Micro-coil Based Cochlear Implant
We have been evaluating magnetic stimulation from tiny, implantable coils (referred to as microcoils) for use in a next-generation cochlear implant (CI). Existing CIs enable speech discrimination, but their effectiveness decreases when background noise levels are high, and most users cannot appreciate music. While a number of factors are thought to contribute to these limitations, it is generally agreed that complex auditory signals, such as those arising from speech in the presence of background noise, or music, require more independent spectral channels than are created by existing, electrode-based CIs. Increasing the number of channels has proven challenging however, as the highly…
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