文档介绍:Evaluating High-Frequency Nerve Conduction Block
For Tinnitus Treatment Using SEF Model
Nima Hajebi Dr. Hamed Sadjedi
School of Electronic Engineering School of Electronic Engineering
Shahed University Shahed University
Tehran, Iran Tehran, Iran
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Abstract— Tinnitus is defined as “unwanted auditory perception transmembrane ion channels and other fundamental process of
of internal origin, usually localized, and rarely heard by others. cellular electrical signaling. Electrical stimulation of the
Tinnitus is a sensibly experienced ringing sensation in the cochlea as a treatment for profound hearing loss has been used
auditory system, which occurs without the presence of an actual since the 1960s. It was noticed in many of those patients that a
auditory stimulation”. Nowadays many researchers focused on side effect to electrical stimulation was tinnitus suppression.
finding a method for treatment of tinnitus. Although they report [4]. One of the electric stimulation applications is nerve
many different treatments, none of them are reported to be the conduction block. A revisable peripheral nerve block by
certain cure of tinnitus. As tinnitus is caused by spontaneous electrical currents could be very useful in many clinical
activity of nerve fibers that sometimes its source cannot be applications. For