Wall C, Merfeld D M, Rauch S D, Black F O
Harvard Medical School, Department of Otology and Laryngology, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
J Vestib Res. 2002;12(2-3):95-113.
Currently available data demonstrate the need for balance prostheses. Recent technological and biomedical advances now make it feasible to produce miniaturized sensors, signal processors, electric stimulators, and stimulating electrodes that are roughly analogous to a cochlear implant but which provide information about self motion, instead of sound. Many areas require work before balance prostheses become a reality. Some of these include: the development of a motion sensor array, the conversion of the sensed motion into physiologically meaningful information, the delivery of the transformed information to the CNS, the training of vestibular deficient individuals to use the prosthesis, and developing methods to evaluate the efficacy of the device. In this "white paper", we consider these issues in the context of prototype baseline prosthetic devices.
目前可得的数据表明对平衡假体的需求。近期的技术和生物医学进展使得生产小型化传感器、信号处理器、电刺激器和刺激电极成为可能，这些装置大致类似于人工耳蜗，但能提供关于自身运动而非声音的信息。在平衡假体成为现实之前，许多领域都需要开展工作。其中一些领域包括：开发运动传感器阵列、将感知到的运动转换为具有生理意义的信息、将转换后的信息传递至中枢神经系统、训练前庭功能缺陷个体使用该假体，以及开发评估该装置功效的方法。在本“白皮书”中，我们在原型基线假体装置的背景下考虑这些问题。
