About the Authors

Lutz Gärtner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Gaertner.Lutz@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Philipp Spitzer

Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, MED-EL Medical Electronics, Innsbruck, Austria

Kathrin Lauss

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, MED-EL Medical Electronics, Innsbruck, Austria

Marko Takanen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, MED-EL Medical Electronics, Innsbruck, Austria

Thomas Lenarz

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sebastian Hoth

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Funktionsbereich Audiologie, Universitäts-HNO-Klinik, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

LG, TL and SH declare no competing interests. PS, KL and MT are employed by MED-EL. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No patents are registered regarding the novel FG-SNR approach.