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Cochlear Corporation
Official site → Sydney, Australia
Cochlear Corporation (Sydney, Australia) is named in a peer-reviewed overview as the maker of the only FDA-approved auditory brainstem implant. The latest model it lists, the ABI541, has 21 platinum contacts on an 8.5 by 3.0 mm paddle and works with the Nucleus 6 sound processor.
- Company site: https://www.cochlear.com/
- Overview: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6438789/
Device entries
- Auditory brainstem implant
- Cochlear implant history: the review there says a first multi-electrode device by Graeme Clark in 1978 was the first successful commercialized multichannel cochlear implant, sold under the Cochlear/Nucleus name.
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