Western Place-Based Cochlear Implant Mapping Study

Academic interventional study comparing standard clinical cochlear-implant programming with a patient-specific place-based frequency map generated from pre-operative 3D temporal-bone CT anatomy. The default and place-based maps are study arms/programming strategies, not separate commercial device products.

Promoted from needs-review after confirming primary registry evidence and institution corroboration. Public registry evidence describes an active/recruiting study of cochlear-implant programming strategies using MED-EL MAESTRO fitting software and states the study is not of a U.S. FDA-regulated device product. This should not be presented as two separate commercial pipeline products.