Onzichtbare gehoorimplantaten

“In UZ Leuven kregen onlangs de eerste patiënten een ‘onzichtbaar’ gehoorimplantaat. In tegenstelling tot de huidige gehoorsystemen, wordt dat systeem volledig onder de huid geplaatst. Daardoor kunnen patiënten ook ’s nachts horen en het geeft hun meer vrijheid om bijvoorbeeld te sporten of hun beroep uit te oefenen.”

Meer informatie over deze innoverende technologie kan je vinden in het bijgevoegde artikel, als ook in het filmpje gemaakt door ROB tv. De derde linkt toont het artikel dat verschenen is op het nationaal nieuws van de VRT.


https://pers.uzleuven.be/eerste-vlaamse-patienten-krijgen-onzichtbaar-gehoorimplantaat

https://www.robtv.be/nieuws/uz-leuven-plaatst-als-eerste-vlaamse-ziekenhuis-volledig-onzichtbaar-gehoorimplantaat-79934

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2019/06/12/uz-leuven-plaatst-eerste-volledig-onzichtbaar-gehoorimplantaat/

Congratulations Ahmad for obtaining your PhD!

We would like to congratulate member of our lab Ahmad Khatoun for successfully defending his PhD thesis last week, titled 'Investigating transcranial and transcutaneous alternating current stimulation to control tremor'.

A special thank you to the internal jury members Prof. Dante Mantini, Prof. Stephan Swinnen, Prof. Jan Wouters and Prof. Wim Vandenberghe, as well as external jury members Prof. Simon Hanslmayr from University of Birmingham and Prof. Til Ole Bergmann from University of Tübingen for attending and evaluating the thesis.

Big thank you to everyone who attended and made this a memorable evening! Ahmad, we wish you all the best for your future endeavours as Dr. Khatoun!

EFAS 2019

EFAS 2019

Last week, the 14th Congress of the European Federation of Audiology Societies #EFAS2019 took place in Portugal. Below, we share some pictures of our lab members presenting at the conference and exploring beautiful Lisbon.

Tilde Van Hirtum gave a talk about Speech perception in noise by school-aged children with dyslexia: Is there a benefit of envelope enhancement? 

Sam Denys spoke about screening revolution with new handheld technology.

 Astrid van Wieringen discussed toddlers with congenital single sided deafness and a cochlear implant. 

 Can you feel the effort? Listening in ecologically relevant environments- by Annelies Devesse

 Charlotte Borgers discussed intracochlear pressure measurements to study human bone conduction perception.

Elien Van Den Borre presenting at EFAS2019

Registration for the Auditory EEG Signal Processing (AESoP) symposium is now open!

Registration for the Auditory EEG Signal Processing (AESoP) symposium is now open!

The symposium will be held from September 16 (noon) to September 18 (noon) in Leuven, Belgium. Registration deadline is September 1 and abstract submission deadline is August 1. 

The topic of the symposium is research on hearing, speech and language, making use of novel EEG or MEG signal processing. It is intended to be multidisciplinary between neuroscience, audiology and engineering, bringing people from these fields together.

The following invited speakers have confirmed: Samira Anderson (University of Maryland, USA), Behtash Babadi (University of Maryland, USA), Mathieu Bourguignon (BCBL, Spain), Joachim Gross (University of Münster, Germany), Ross Maddox (University of Rochester, USA), Myles Mc Laughlin (KU Leuven, Belgium), Nima Mesgarani (Columbia University, USA) and Sarah Verhulst (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) .

More information can be found here: https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be…/5000…/Symposia/aesop/AESOP2019

Registration can be done here: https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/…/AESOP20…/registration2019/viewPlease note that the maximum number of participants is limited.

Seminar Dr. Melissa Polonenko - 28 May 2019

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences Cortical development in children with increasing degrees of asymmetric hearing loss who receive a cochlear implant Dr. Melissa Polonenko University of Rochester Medical Center When? Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 14:00 Where? Seminar room HP8 O&N2, KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation. Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Prof. Dr. Debi Vickers - 3 June 2019

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Defining the limits for audiometry and speech perception for adult cochlear implant indications – a NICE change to UK criteria Prof. Dr. Debi Vickers University College London, Ear Institute When? Monday, 3 June 2019, 13:30 Where? Seminar room HP 1 O&N 2 - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven   Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Anastasiya Starovoyt - 29 May 2019

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   First steps towards image-guided cochlear implant surgery with optical coherence tomography. Anastasiya Starovoyt Research Seminar When? Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 11:00 Where? Seminar room HP1 O&N 2 - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Abstract Cochlear implant (CI) is a well-established treatment for severe hearing loss. Currently, cochlear implant surgery comprises a gentle insertion of an electrode array into the cochlea, guided by macroscopic CT scanning and surgical expertise. While this approach is effective, it does not guarantee an atraumatic electrode insertion. Prevention of insertion trauma is crucial for achievement of the optimal hearing outcome in patients, especially in view of the recent trends towards preservation of residual hearing, earlier implantation and a lifetime use of renewing technologies in children. In the past decades, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven valuable for real-time, non-invasive, high-resolution, cross-sectional imaging of tissue microstructure in various fields of medicine. There is an upcoming interest for OCT imaging of the cochlea. Our goal is to adapt this technology for non-invasive visualization of the cochlear insertion area and thus to enable an image-guided electrode insertion. We have performed a feasibility study on OCT imaging in surgically accessed and isolated human cochleas. Currently, we are working on standardization of OCT imaging for the human cochlea. Furthermore, we are developing a 3D printed cochlear model for insertion trauma studies, based on micro-CT scans of human temporal bones. We will present the results of our feasibility study and the first prototypes of the cochlear model. In conclusion, we will discuss the planning of the next steps towards OCT-guided insertion. Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven