Measurement of directivity for the design of an implantable microphone implanted under an artificial skin model

Eui Sung Jung, Dong Ho Shin, Ki Woong Seong, Jyung Hyung Lee, Jang Woo Lee, Hui Sup Cho, Myoung Nam Kim, Jin Ho Cho

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Abstract

A microphone implanted under the skin became a significant issue owing to the advent of fully-implantable hearing aids (F-IHAs). And, the design of implantable microphone is needed to be considered the biocompatibility, effects of the human skin and directivity. However, there were few studies to develop implantable microphone to consider directivity. In this paper, to design and implement the implantable microphone for the F-IHA, the directivity of the implantable microphone placed under an artificial skin model was measured. The artificial skin used the test model was made by a gelatin gel that was normally studied as soft tissue model of an ultra-sound phantom. And acoustic properties of the test model skin are similar to it of rats that are the transmission loss and the absorption coefficient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics
Subtitle of host publicationGlobal Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012
Pages297-300
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventIEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2012. In Conj. with the 8th Int. Symp.on Medical Devices and Biosensors and the 7th Int. Symp. on Biomedical and Health Engineering - Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China
Duration: 2 Jan 20127 Jan 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Global Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012

Conference

ConferenceIEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2012. In Conj. with the 8th Int. Symp.on Medical Devices and Biosensors and the 7th Int. Symp. on Biomedical and Health Engineering
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong and Shenzhen
Period2/01/127/01/12

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