Synchrotron Imaging Informs Customized Cochlear Implant Programming
The maps the research team created using the synchrotron could make a huge difference to the sound quality of cochlear implants.
The maps the research team created using the synchrotron could make a huge difference to the sound quality of cochlear implants.
A team of engineers and clinicians have used 3D printing to create intricate replicas of human cochleae and combined it with machine learning to advance clinical predictions of ‘current spread’ inside the ear for cochlear implant (CI) patients. ‘Current spread’ or electrical stimulus spread, as it is also known, affects CI performance and leads to 'blurred' hearing for users, but no adequate testing models have existed for replicating the problem in human cochleae – until now.
A team of researchers from Western University, in collaboration with Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden, has designed a mathematical tool to help do just that -- program the implant with precision for each patient’s unique anatomy.
We hear sounds in part because tiny filaments inside our inner ears help convert voices, music, and noises into electrical signals that are sent to our brains for processing. Now, scientists have mapped and simulated those filaments at the atomic level, a discovery that shed lights on how the inner ear works and that could help researchers learn more about how and why people lose the ability to hear.
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Read MoreNearly 24% of US adults ages 20 to 69 have features of their hearing tests in one or both ears that suggest hearing loss from loud noise, based on a 2017 study by researchers from the NIDCD and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Read MoreThe new technology is based on a recent hearing aid specification, Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA) on Bluetooth Low Energy Connection-Oriented Channels, which Google has developed in collaboration with GN Hearing and Cochlear.
Read MoreThese funds will enable Strekin to conclude its ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial of STR001 in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, the RESTORE trial, and to prepare for a European filing.
Read MoreThe proteins, described in a report published June 12 in “eLife,” may hold a key to future therapies to restore hearing in people with irreversible deafness. An article summarizing the research was published on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website.
Read MoreThe researchers found that noise trauma causes substantially greater changes in neural processing of complex sounds compared with age-related metabolic loss, potentially explaining large differences in speech perception commonly seen between people with the same clinically defined degree of hearing loss based on an audiogram.
Read MoreImproved modeling for speech and music transduction could boost the performance of cochlear implants.
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