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LITHGOW, Mr Brian

Phone: +61 3 9905 1893, Fax: +61 3 9905 3454
eMail: brian.lithgow@eng.monash.edu.au


Senior Lecturer, Teaching Director of the Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Chairman of the IEEE EMBS (Vic) Society

M.EngSc (Biomed.Eng), (Melbourne), 1983, BE (Elec.Eng), (Melbourne), 1981, BSc (Phys., App.Maths), (Melbourne), 1980

MSMBE, SMIEAust., CPEng., SMIEEE

Selected Research interests:

Cochlear implant and auditory signal processing, neurophysiology of the auditory midbrain, neural modelling and acoustic noise cancellation. Application of Bluetooth technology to digital hearing aids. Biomedical education and commercialisation of medical research.

Selected Publications:

"A comparison of responsiveness of units in the cat inferior colliculus for monaural electric and acoustic stimulation," Lithgow, B.J. and Clark. G.M. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol. 1995 104 (9), Suppl. 166 (2) 118-120

"A high pulse rate electric stimulation model: An inferior colliculus unit study," Lithgow.B.J. and Clark. G.M., Med. Biol. Eng. Comp. 34, Suppl 1 (2), 227-228, 1996

"High pulse rate effects on inferior colliculus (ICC) units." Lithgow, B.J., J. Med. Biol. Eng. Comp. 35, Suppl (1), 1997, pg 303

"A perspective of Biomedical Engineering in Australia." Lithgow, B.J., J. Med. Biol. Eng. Comp. 35, Suppl (2), 1997, pg 1249

"SNR Improvement, filtering and spectral equalization in cochlear implants using wavelet techniques," (1998) Brehenbruch, C.P., and Lithgow, B.J. (1998) Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Bioelectromagnetism, Melbourne, Australia, pgs 61-62

"Relaxing cochlear implant electrode design constraints using high pulse rate stimulation." (1998) Lithgow, B.J. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Hong Kong, Vol 2. pgs 3132-3135

"Wavelet analysis of ABR data." (1999) Lithgow, B.J. and Fang, Q. Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Victorian Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Melbourne, pgs 50-53

"Neurone Modelling using VHDL." (1999) Zakis, J and Lithgow, B. Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Victorian Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Melbourne, pgs 89-92

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