An interventional study of Anatomy-based fitting and Default fitting in Cochlear Implant, Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid, sponsored by Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel. Recruiting at 2 sites in Belgium. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-09.
Sponsored by Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of an anatomy-based frequency distribution in comparison to a default frequency distribution in bimodal CI patients, i.e. wearing a cochlear implant and a contralateral hearing aid. Speech perception in quiet, speech perception in noise, consonant/vowel discrimination and pitch/timbre perception will be assessed in an acute set-up with both the default fitting map and the anatomy-based fitting map.
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Device: Anatomy-based fitting · Device: Default fitting
Device: Anatomy-based fitting · Device: Default fitting
Programming of cochlear implant speech processor with anatomy-based fitting
Programming of cochlear implant speech processor according to standard clinical care
Speech recognition test in quiet
Percentage correctly identified phonemes
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post intervention
Speech recognition test in noise (S0N0, S0N90)
Speech reception threshold in dB SNR
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post- intervention
Vowel and consonant identification task (ASSE)
Number of correctly identified vowels and correctly identified consonants
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post-intervention
Pitch and timbre ranking
Score on visual analog scale (VAS) with a range from 0 (duller than the reference) to 10 (brighter than the reference). The score of 5 means an exact match with the timbre or pitch of the hearing aid.
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post intervention
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