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Article Dans Une Revue PLoS ONE Année : 2022

Current distribution of distributed all-polar cochlear implant stimulation mode measured in-situ

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Oticon Medical cochlear implants use a stimulation mode called Distributed All-Polar (DAP) that connects all non-stimulating available intracochlear electrodes and an extracochlear reference electrode. It results in a complex distribution of current that is yet undescribed. The present study aims at providing a first characterization of this current distribution. A Neuro Zti was modified to allow the measurement of current returning to each electrode during a DAP stimulation and was implanted in an ex-vivo human head. Maps of distributed current were then created for different stimulation conditions with different charge levels. Results show that, on average, about 20% of current returns to the extracochlear reference electrode, while the remaining 80% is distributed between intracochlear electrodes. The position of the stimulating electrode changed this ratio, and about 10% more current to the extracochlear return in case of the first 3 basal electrodes than for apical and mid position electrodes was observed. Increasing the charge level led to small but significant change in the ratio, and about 4% more current to the extracochlear return was measured when increasing the charge level from 11.7 to 70 nC. Further research is needed to show if DAP yields better speech understanding than other stimulation modes.

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hal-03893742 , version 1 (11-12-2022)

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Pierre Stahl, Kai Dang, Clair Vandersteen, Nicolas Guevara, Maureen Clerc, et al.. Current distribution of distributed all-polar cochlear implant stimulation mode measured in-situ. PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (10), pp.e0275961. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0275961⟩. ⟨hal-03893742⟩
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