Bone Conduction
Development of image-based surgical planning software for bone-conduction implants
... BONEBRIDGE bone-conduction device is used to treat conductive and mixed hearing ...sufficient bone for the implant screws to grasp. Temporal bone computed tomography (CT) images were segmented ...
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Feature Extraction and Signal Reconstruction of Air and Bone Conduction Voices by Independent Component Analysis
... and bone con- duction voices in the time domain by applying the in- dependent component analysis ...and bone conduction voices extracted by applying ICA are shown first, and then the quality of the ...
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Dentary Bone Conduction Device Equipped with a Self-Made Laser Pointer
... The bone conduction components consist of a motor body, power cord, and motor support frame (Table 1). The vibration rod is the power shaft of the direct current motor. The optical signal generation module ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging investigation of the bone conduction implant – a pilot study at 1.5 Tesla
... implantable bone conduction device (BCD) is a type of hearing implant that typically contains magnetic materials and should not be scanned in patients without being tested and ...
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Minimally Invasive Ponto Surgery compared to the linear incision technique without soft tissue reduction for bone conduction hearing implants: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... the bone- anchored hearing aid (BAHA), also known as the bone conduction hearing implant (BCHI) was introduced in 1981 ...retroauricular bone of the skull with an abutment that breaches the ...
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Design of GSM based voice data processing through bone conduction principle
... Soundbite sensor sensor is a device that transismit sound via the teeth .It is an alternative to surgical bone conduction which require surgical implantation into the skull conduct sound . soundbite sensor ...
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New developments in bone-conduction hearing implants: a review
... of bone-conduction devices (BCDs) available for hearing rehabilitation are ...the bone via the skin are referred to as skin-drive devices, and are divided into conventional devices, which are ...
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<p>Nasal sound pressure as objective verification of implant in active transcutaneous bone conduction devices</p>
... The bone conduction implant (BCI) is a new active transcutaneous BCD in an ongoing multicenter clinical trial. 2–4 It consists of an external audio processor and an internal implant. The signal is ...
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<p>Robustness and lifetime of the bone conduction implant – a pilot study</p>
... Notes: (A) Electro-acoustic measurement setup for output force level and total harmonic distortion (ThD) of the full bone conduction implant (Bci) system. The implant and audio processor are attached to the ...
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Vascular mapping of the retroauricular skin – proposal for a posterior superior surgical incision for transcutaneous bone-conduction hearing implants
... Our study clearly confirms the coherent advantages of the short posterior superior incision when transcutane- ous bone-conduction hearing devices are implanted, based on the surgical anatomical vascular ...
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VEMP using a new low-frequency bone conduction transducer
... (C). Bone-conducting transducers were applied using a steel spring arrangement either to the mastoid (Fm) just behind the pinnae at the virtual line through the ear canal opening and lateral eye hook or at the ...
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Hearing assessment in dental practitioners and other academic professionals from an urban setting
... After the checking of all questionnaires and audiometric tests, the data from a total of 75 men and 33 women (53 dentists, 55 control subjects) could be evaluated. Subjects with prior ear disorders or presently suffering ...
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Correlation between Clinical Diagnosis and Claussens Butterfly Chart Patterns in Patients with Vertigo
... 102 EAR EXAMINATION RIGHT LEFT Tympanic Membrane Tuning fork tests –RINNE WEBER Absolute Bone Conduction Facial Nerve Fistula Sign VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS Rombergs test Unterbergers te[r] ...
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A cross sectional study of hearing thresholds in medical students
... Methods: A total of 103 medical students in the age group of 20 to 23 years were screened and subjected to PTA. The Pure tone average was calculated for air conduction (AC) and bone conduction (BC) ...
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Results of a multicentre randomised controlled trial of cochlear-sparing intensity-modulated radiotherapy versus conventional radiotherapy in patients with parotid cancer (COSTAR; CRUK/08/004).
... Methods: Patients (pT1-4 N0-3 M0) were randomly assigned (1:1) to 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) or CS-IMRT by minimisation, balancing for centre and radiation dose of 60Gy or 65Gy in 30 daily fractions. ...
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Vibrant Soundbridge and Bonebridge: Bilateral Application in a Child with Bilateral Congenital Ear Canal Atresia
... Fig. 3 shows aided hearing thresholds around 20 dB HL with both devices active in the 1 to 4 kHz range, the most important frequency range for speech perception. Remarkably, symmetric aided thresholds were found (within ...
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Method and apparatus for bone sensing
... improved bone conduction sensor capable of use within a voice sound transmitting ...The bone conduction sensor is adapted for placement in the external auditory canal of the user in a ...
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Ototoxic effect of anti-tubercular treatment on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patient
... In our study we concluded that the effect of aminoglycoside on hearing in patients receiving second line ATT is a serious challenge, as there is a high prevalence of MDR-TB in our environment. The high frequency hearing ...
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Development of a low cost screen to identify hearing loss in young children and appropriate services for deaf children in Binga, Zimbabwe
... Although the Kamplex screening audiometer did not have the facility for testing bone conduction to ascertain true cases of sensorineural hearing loss, I can still infer tha[r] ...
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Auditory acuity in type II diabetes mellitus patients vs healthy individuals: a comparative study
... investigations including blood sugar level, complete blood count and glycosylated hemoglobin was done in all the cases. Audiometry was carried out in all patients. Cochlear response to audiometry, air conduction ...
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