Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 125-129 , June 2008

Designing the Actuator of Hearing Aid Using Spiral Coils and Finite Element Analysis

  • Peir-Rong Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Department of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chia-Fone Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Department of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, 707, Section 3, Chung-Yang Road, Hualien, Taiwan

Received 8 October 2007 ,Revised 24 October 2007 ,Accepted 6 November 2007.

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PII: S1016-3190(08)60022-1

doi: 10.1016/S1016-3190(08)60022-1

Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 125-129 , June 2008

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