image: This is a microCT image of the left cochlea in a guinea pig with the cochlear implant inserted. Each of the eight electrodes are only 350 µm in diameter. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 23, 2014, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. J.L. Pinyon at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, NSW, Australia, and colleagues was titled, 'Close-Field Electroporation Gene Delivery Using the Cochlear Implant Electrode Array Enhances the Bionic Ear.' view more
Credit: Image from the UNSW Australia Biological Resources Imaging Laboratory and National Imaging Facility of Australia, with T.-T. Hung and A. Kwek, and UNSW Translational Neuroscience Facility, J. Pinyon and G. Housley