Conducting polymer electrodes for auditory brainstem implants
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Conducting polymer electrodes for auditory brainstem implants.
The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) restores hearing in patients with damaged auditory nerves. One of the main ideas to improve the efficacy of ABIs is to increase spatial specificity of stimulation, in order to minimize extra-auditory side-effects and to maximize the tonotopy of stimulation. This study reports on the development of a microfabricated conformable electrode array with small (100...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Materials Chemistry B
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2050-750X,2050-7518
DOI: 10.1039/c5tb00099h