Cochlear Implant Fitting System
AssigneeNew York University
InventorMario A. SVIRSKY
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Abstract
A method comprises adjusting baseline auditory stimulation parameters of a cochlear implant on a living body and providing auditory electrical stimulation to a living body via electrodes of the cochlear implant in combination with adjusting the auditory stimulation parameters of the cochlear implant to the living body in real time, retaining a database of used auditory stimulation parameters for a patient and selecting, in real time, from the database a desired one of the stimulation parameters that produces desired hearing percepts in a patient.
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A method, comprising:
- adjusting baseline auditory stimulation parameters of a cochlear implant on a living body;
- providing auditory electrical stimulation to a living body via a plurality of electrodes of the cochlear implant;
- adjusting the auditory stimulation parameters of the cochlear implant to the living body;
- retaining a database of used auditory stimulation parameters for a patient;
- and
- selecting from the database a desired one of the stimulation parameters that produces desired hearing percepts in a patient.
A system for electrically stimulating a cochlear implant, comprising:
- an electrode contact transmitting electrical stimuli from stimulation hardware to the cochlear implant;
- a component establishing frequency-to-electrode maps for each of a plurality of stimulation parameters of the electrical stimuli provided by the stimulation hardware;
- a user-interface component permitting a user to adjust the stimulation parameters and receive the corresponding auditory stimulation;
- a component storing the frequency-to-electrode maps;
- and
- a component comparing multiple frequency-to-electrode maps to determine a most desired frequency-to-electrode map.
A computer readable storage medium including instructions which, when executed by a processor, directs the processor to perform the following steps:
- adjusting baseline auditory stimulation parameters of a cochlear implant on a living body;
- providing auditory electrical stimulation to a living body via a plurality of electrodes of the cochlear implant;
- adjusting the stimulation parameters of the cochlear implant to the living body;
- retaining a database of used auditory stimulation parameters for a patient;
- and
- selecting from the database a desired one of the stimulation parameters that produces desired hearing percepts in a patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.