Contact: Toni Baker
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Georgia Health Sciences University

Drs. Kenneth Iverson and Brian McKinnon, Medical College of Georgia

Caption: More electrodes and a thinner, more flexible wire inserted further into the inner ear could improve conventional cochlear implants, a team of Medical College of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers say.

Credit: Phil Jones, Campus Photographer for the Medical College of Georgia

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