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Original Article

The use of cochlear's SCAN and wireless microphones to improve speech understanding in noise with the Nucleus6® CP900 processor

Geert De CeulaerThe Eargroup, Antwerp-Deurne, Belgium, ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-2639-2578
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David PascoalThe Eargroup, Antwerp-Deurne, Belgium, ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-1712
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Filiep VanpouckeCochlear Technology Centre Europe (CTCE), Mechelen, Belgium,
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Paul J. GovaertsThe Eargroup, Antwerp-Deurne, Belgium, ;ENT Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, and ;Department of Language Literature and Communication, Language Hearing Center VU Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 837-843 | Received 27 Nov 2016, Accepted 18 Jun 2017, Published online: 11 Jul 2017

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