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http://dx.doi.org/10.5369/JSST.2010.19.5.361

Study on frequency response of implantable microphone and vibrating transducer for the gain compensation of implantable middle ear hearing aid  

Jung, Eui-Sung (Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Seong, Ki-Woong (Advanced research center for recovery of human sensibility, Kyungpook National University)
Lim, Hyung-Gyu (Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Jang-Woo (Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Kim, Dong-Wook (Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Jyung-Hyun (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Kyungpook National University Hospital)
Kim, Myoung-Nam (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Kyungpook National University Hospital)
Cho, Jin-Ho (Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of Sensor Science and Technology / v.19, no.5, 2010 , pp. 361-368 More about this Journal
Abstract
ACROSS device, which is composed of an implantable microphone, a signal processor, and a vibrating transducer, is a fullyimplantable middle ear hearing device(F-IMEHD) for the recovery of patients with hearing loss. And since a microphone is implanted under skin and tissue at the temporal bones, the amplitude of the sound wave is attenuated by absorption and scattering. And the vibrating transducer attached to the ossicular chain caused also the different displacement from characteristic of the stapes. For the gain control of auditory signals, most of implantable hearing devices with the digital audio signal processor still apply to fitting rules of conventional hearing aid without regard to the effect of the implanted microphone and the vibrating transducer. So it should be taken into account the effect of the implantable microphone and the vibrating transducer to use the conventional audio fitting rule. The aim of this study was to measure gain characteristics caused by the implanted microphone and the vibrating transducer attached to the ossicle chains for the gain compensation of ACROSS device. Differential floating mass transducers (DFMT) of ACROSS device were clipped on four cadaver temporal bones. And after placing the DFMT on them, displacements of the ossicle chain with the DFMT operated by 1 $mA_{peak}$ current was measured using laser Doppler vibrometer. And the sensitivity of microphones under the sampled pig skin and the skin of 3 rat back were measured by stimulus of pure tones in frequency from 0.1 to 8.9 kHz. And we confirmed that the microphone implanted under skin showed poorer frequency response in the acoustic high-frequency band than it in the low- to mid- frequency band, and the resonant frequency of the stapes vibration was changed by attaching the DFMT on the incus, the displacement of the DFMT driven with 1 $mA_{rms}$ was higher by the amount of about 20 dB than that of cadaver's stapes driven by the sound presssure of 94 dB SPL in resonance frequency range.
Keywords
fully-implantable middle ear device(F-IMEHD); differential floating mass transducer(DFMT); implantable microphone;
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