The feasibility of enabling cochlear implant users to evaluate the functionality of their microphones away from clinic.

而人工耳蜗(CI)中心可以客观地测试顺式麦克风的功能，而顺式麦克风可能会逐渐堵塞，从而降低效率。目前还没有一种系统允许使用CI的人客观地测试他们自己的植入物的功能。该项目旨在通过确定使CI用户能够在诊所外测试他们的处理器麦克风功能所涉及的可行性和潜在挑战来确定这种系统的可行性。为了实现这一目标，它将确定CI麦克风故障的声学特征和CI诊所使用的当前测试方法的准确性；确定CI用户可以检测到哪些类型的麦克风故障；以及确定可能影响测试的环境因素和如何纠正它们的策略。

While Cochlear Implant (CI) centres can objectively test the functionality of CIs microphones which can become gradually blocked and therefore less effective. There is currently no system that allows people people who use CIs to objectively test the functionality of their own implant. This project aims to determine the viability of such a system by determining the feasibility and potential challenges involved in enabling CI users to test their processors microphone functionality away from a clinic. In achieving this it will identify the acoustic characteristics of CI microphone failures and the accuracy of current test methods used in CI clinics; identify what types of microphone failures can CI users detect; and identify environmental factors that could effect a test and strategies how to correct for them.