ArticleBiomedical engineering online2018
Fine-grain recordings of the electrically evoked compound action potential amplitude growth function in cochlear implant recipients.
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- Dynamics of neural responsiveness in pediatric cochlear implant users.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Evaluating the N1-P2 Interpeak Latency of the eCAP and Its Intertrial Variability as Potential Indicators of Neural Synchrony in the Auditory Nerve of Cochlear Implant Users.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026Article
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- Evaluating the N1-P2 interpeak latency of the eCAP and its intertrial variability as potential indicators of neural synchrony in the cochlear nerve of cochlear implant users.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Effects of stimulus polarity on the local evoked potential in auditory brainstem implant users.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- How differ eCAP types in cochlear implants users with and without inner ear malformations: amplitude growth function, spread of excitation, refractory recovery function.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- Rhythm increases perceptual tolerance when measuring electrically evoked compound action potentials in cochlear implant recipients.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Insights Into Electrophysiological Metrics of Cochlear Health in Cochlear Implant Users Using a Computational Model.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024Article
- A new method for removing artifacts from recordings of the electrically evoked compound action potential: Single-pulse stimulation.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Classification of electrically-evoked potentials in the parkinsonian subthalamic nucleus region.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- ARTFit-A Quick and Reliable Tool for Performing Initial Fittings in Users of MED-EL Cochlear Implants.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Optimized SNR-based ECAP threshold determination is comparable to the judgement of human evaluators.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn cochlear implants (CI) measuring the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) has become an important tool for verifying the electrode-nerve interface as well as establishing a basis for a map to program the speech processor. In a standard clinical setup recordings are averaged over 25-100 repetitions to allow for the detection of ECAPs within the noise floor. To obtain an amplitude growth function, these measurements are normally performed for 5-10 different stimulation levels. We evaluate a recording paradigm where the stimulation intensity is increased in quasi-continuous steps and instead of averaging repeated recordings with identical stimulation parameters, running averages over small intervals of stimulation levels are computed. The first visible nerve response was manually identified by two experts.
resultsBoth recording paradigms were evaluated in 39 cochlear implants, showing an on average lower threshold of the first nerve response for the quasi-continuous measurement paradigm (Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p = 6.2e-08) compared to the clinical standard paradigm. The mean maximal loudness over all implants and stimulation electrodes was 13% lower at the 80 pulses/s quasi-continuous paradigm compared to the 44 pulses/s clinical standard paradigm.
conclusionsBeside a more robust determination of the ECAP threshold, the proposed quasi-continuous stimulation paradigm results in a more robust behavioral feedback of the CI user upon the maximal acceptable loudness percept. Furthermore this paradigm can also reveal the fine-structure in the amplitude growth function.
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