Bo Håkansson

TL;DR: A percutaneous osseointegrated (bone-anchored) interface that allows for permanent and unlimited bidirectional communication with the human body and demonstrates in one subject that implanted electrodes provide a more precise and reliable control than surface electrodes, regardless of limb position and environmental conditions, and with less effort.

TL;DR: The surgical procedure is described and the success rate to establish and maintain osseointegration is presented together with the frequency of skin reactions at the implant site.

TL;DR: The active transcutaneous direct-drive BCDs appear to be the most promising systems, but to establish more detailed inclusion criteria, and potential benefits and drawbacks, more extensive clinical studies are needed.

TL;DR: BioPatRec allows a seamless implementation of a variety of algorithms in the fields of Signal processing; feature selection and extraction; pattern recognition; and, real-time control, and since the platform is highly modular and customizable, researchers from different fields can seamlessly benchmark their algorithms by applying them in prosthetic control.

TL;DR: A permanent skin penetration has made it possible to develop a bone-anchored hearing aid with all components in one housing and a lowering in thresholds means lower transducer distortion, lower electrical gain, and lower power consumption to produce a given sensation level.