HiRes 90K Implant
Experience the Ultimate Implant Performance

The Harmony™ System's HiRes 90K™ implant from AB features the most advanced sound processing available and unsurpassed programming flexibility for the world’s best hearing performance.4,5 To meet your hearing needs now and in the future, the Harmony System can be upgraded so that your hearing advances as the technology does—without surgery. Choosing AB allows you or your child to benefit from tomorrow’s technology with today’s implant.

HiRes 90K Circuitry

Technical Specifications

  • Small surgical size ideal for very young children
  • Comfort forming shape
  • Removable magnet for MRI scans
  • HiFocus® electrodes for neural targeting
  • Neural Response Imaging diagnostics
  • State-of-the-art integrated circuit computer technology
  • Internal memory
  • 16 independent output circuits
  • Broadband data transmission
  • Bidirectional telemetry
  • 90K data updates per second
  • Up to 83,000 stimulation pulses per second
  • Up to 120 bands of spectral information

HiResolution® sound processing programming:

  • HiRes-P with Fidelity 120* (paired), HiRes-S with Fidelity 120 (sequential)
  • HiRes-P (paired), HiRes-S (sequential)
  • CIS and MPS modes
  • IntellilinkTM implant and processor association

1. AB Consumer Reliability Report. 2009.

2. Holtkamp V. Cochlear Implants Under Impact Loading. Evaluation of Accident Scenarios, Determination of Load Limits, and Development of a Standardizable Test Procedure. Dissertation accepted by the Senate of Hannover Medical School, May 19, 2004.

3. Cochlear Nucleus CI512 Cochlear Implant Technical Specifications. N33741F Iss1 Jun09.

4. Spahr A, Dorman MF, Loiselle LH. 2007. Performance of Patients Using Different Cochlear Implant Systems: Effects of Input Dynamic Range. Ear and Hearing. 28 (2): 260–275.

5. Haumann S, Büchner A, Lenarz Th. Does the Input Dynamic Range of Cochlear Implant Processors Influence Speech Perception in Adverse Listening Situations? Oral Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implant and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, San Diego, CA, April 10–12, 2008.

* Hires Fidelity 120 is not approved for pediatrics in the United States.