マルチピーク方式人工内耳の試用成績

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Cochlear implantation with the multipeak method was performed in 6 patients with total or high level sensorineural hearing loss. It had been hoped that this multipeak method would improve especially consonant recognition ability, because consonant recognition by cochlear implant patients is poor. Vowel and consonant confusion tests were performed, however the results were not better than with the previous method. The patients were partially satisfied with the new system, bacause the newly deviced speech processor is lighter than the pervious one.