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Supplementary Material for: Clinical Evaluation of an Image-Guided Cochlear Implant Programming Strategy
<p>The cochlear implant (CI) has been labeled the most successful neural
prosthesis. Despite this success, a significant number of CI recipients
experience poor speech understanding, and, even among the best
performers, restoration to normal auditory fidelity is rare. While
significant research efforts have been devoted to improving stimulation
strategies, few developments have led to significant hearing improvement
over the past two decades. We have recently introduced image processing
techniques that open a new direction for advancement in this field by
making it possible, for the first time, to determine the position of
implanted CI electrodes relative to the nerves they stimulate using
computed tomography images. In this article, we present results of an
image-guided, patient-customized approach to stimulation that utilizes
the electrode position information our image processing techniques
provide. This approach allows us to identify electrodes that cause
overlapping stimulation patterns and to deactivate them from a patient's
map. This individualized mapping strategy yields significant
improvement in speech understanding in both quiet and noise as well as
improved spectral resolution in the 68 adult CI recipients studied to
date. Our results indicate that image guidance can improve hearing
outcomes for many existing CI recipients without requiring additional
surgery or the use of ‘experimental' stimulation strategies, hardware or
software.</p
The use of phillipsite in test construction of agglutinated deep-sea benthonic foraminifera*
Assessment of Clinical Laboratory Techniques in the Measurement of Oxygen Saturation in Whole Blood
Intermittent mandatory ventilation and controlled mechanical ventilation without positive end-expiratory pressure following cardio-pulmonary bypass
Successive foraminiferal faunas and inferred palaeoenvironments associated with the postglacial (Holocene) marine transgression, Gulf St Vincent, South Australia
The use of models and methods for strategic planning: towards an holistic view of strategy
Formulating manufacturing business strategy is often fragmented in as much as current tools address upstream and downstream vertical integration with product integration, or more recently, product and infrastructure integration. Rarely do tools address all of these dimensions in an holistic manner. The research described in this paper is that undertaken in the MAPSTRAT project: a scoping study with industrial partners, aiming to satisfy this business need. A comprehensive literature study is described which is contextualized using six case studies. The paper stresses the importance of ‘joined-up thinking’ and outlines plans for an appropriate tool that is under development