| Literature DB >> 11382579 |
Abstract
Hearing devices may be classified as sound-producing hearing aids, electrically stimulating devices, and vibratory hearing aids. Because patients may lose physiologic cochlear amplification, hearing devices for the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss are used as signal amplifiers. The totally implantable communication assistance (TICA) device is a European-approved totally implantable vibratory amplifier implant. It picks up the sound signal transcutaneously from the external auditory canal near the eardrum, amplifies the signal, and transduces the signal into microvibrations that are delivered to the ossicular chain.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11382579 DOI: 10.1016/s0030-6665(05)70340-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Otolaryngol Clin North Am ISSN: 0030-6665 Impact factor: 3.346