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Anatomy-Based Fitting in Unexperienced Cochlear Implant Users
Sponsor: Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
Summary
Severe to profound hearing loss affects 0,8% of the global population. For these people, a conventional hearing aid often does not provide sufficient benefit. However, these people can benefit from a cochlear implant (CI). A CI needs to be individually programmed (fitted) for each recipient. A fitting "map" is defined as a set of electrical parameters that are individually adapted to a recipient's needs to achieve optimal sound perception. At present, most CI recipients are fitted with a default frequency allocation map that doesn't take individual variability in size and shape of the cochlea into account. In this study, a fitting strategy based on the post-operative CT scan, that will allow the audiologist to set a frequency-band distribution for CI fitting that may be more closely aligned to the natural tonotopic frequency distribution of a normal hearing cochlea, will be evaluated.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
40
Start Date
2022-03-30
Completion Date
2027-01
Last Updated
2026-07-02
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Default CI fitting
Programming of cochlear implant speech processor according to standard clinical care
Anatomy-based CI fitting
Programming of cochlear implant speech processor with anatomy-based fitting
Locations (2)
University Hospital Brussels
Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Antwerp University Hopsital
Antwerp, Belgium