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RECRUITING
NCT05451628
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Anatomy-Based Fitting in Unexperienced Cochlear Implant Users

Sponsor: Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

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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

DEVICE

Default CI fitting

Programming of cochlear implant speech processor according to standard clinical care

DEVICE

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