Person

Tong, Yit Chow (Joe)

Occupation
Mechanical engineer

Summary

Joe Tong was a collaborator with Graeme Clark in the development of the bionic ear (cochlear implant). Tong began with Clark as a graduate student in mechanical engineering. He was one of the first to join Clark's team at the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne in 1970. He co-authored many publications with Clark and was also co-inventor named on four patents. Tong continued to work in the department until 1992.

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The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Department of Otolaryngology - Bionic Ear Records, 1949 - 2000, 2004.0043 at U77/46-55; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Clark, Graeme Milbourne; Blamey, Peter. J.; Brown, A. M.; Busby, P. A.; Dowell, R. C.; Franz, B. K.; Pyman, B. C.; Shepherd, R. K.; Tong, Y. C.; Webb R. L.; Hirshorn, M. S.; Kuzma, J. A.; Mecklenburg, D. J.; Money, D. K.; Patrick, J. F.; Seligman, P. M., Nucleus Multi-electrode Cochlear Implant (Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology), vol. 38 (Basel: Karger, 1987). Details
  • Worthing, Mark, Graeme Clark: The Man Who Invented the Bionic Ear (Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2015), 221 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Clark, Graeme Milbourne; Black, R. C.; Patrick, J. F.; Tong, Y. C., 'Design criteria of a multiple-electrode cochlear implant hearing prosthesis' in Sensory Aids for the Hearing Impaired, Levitt, H., Pickett, J. M., and Houde, R., eds (New York: IEEE Press, 1980), pp. 457-9. Details

Journal Articles

  • Busby, P. A.; Tong, Y. C.; Clark, G. M., 'The perception of temporal modulations by cochlear implant patients', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97 (1993), 124-31. Details
  • Busby, P. A.; Tong, Y. C.; Hollow, R. D.; Clark, G. M., 'Psychophysical and speech perception studies" A case report on a binaural cochlear implant subject', Audiology, 31 (1992), 95-111. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Black, R. C.; Forster, I. C.; Patrick, J. F.; Tong, Y. C., 'Design criteria of a multiple-electrode cochlear implant hearing prosthesis', Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 63 (1978), 631-3. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Blamey, P. J.; Busby, P. A.; Dowell, R. C.; Franz, B. K. - H. G.; Musgrave, G. N.; Nienhuys, T. G. W.; Pyman, B. C.; Roberts, S. A.; Tong, Y. C.; Well, R. L.; Kuzma, J. A.; Money, D. K.; Patrick, J. F.; Seligman, P. M., 'A multiple-electrode intracochlear implant for children', Archives of Otolaryngology, 113 (1987), 825-8. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Busby, P. A.; Roberts, S. A.; Dowell, R. C.; Tong, Y. C.; Blamey, P. J.; Nienhuys, T. G. W.; Mecklenburg, D. J.; Well, R. J.; Pyman, B. C.; Franz, B. K. - H. G.,, 'Preliminary results for the Cochlear Corporation multi-electrode intracochlear implants on six prelingually deaf patients', American Journal of Otology, 8 (1987), 234-9. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Crosby, P. A.; Dowell, R. C.; Kuzma, J. A.; Money, D. K.; Patrick, J. F.; Seligman, P. M.; Tong, Y. C., 'The preliminary clinical trial of a multi-channel cochlear implant hearing prosthesis', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 74 (1983), 1977-14. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Shepherd, R. K.; Franz, B. K. - H. G.; Dowell, R. C.; Tong, Y. C.; Blamey, S.; Webb, R. L.; Pyman, B. C.; McNaughton, J.; Kakulas, B. A.; Siejka, S., 'The histopathology of the human temporal bone and auditory central nervous system following cochlear implantation in a patient: Correlation with psychophysics and speech perception results', Acta Oto-Laryngologica (1988), 1-65. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Tong, Y. C.; Black, R. C.; Forster, I. C.; Patrick, J. F.; Dewhurst, D. J., 'A multiple-electrode cochlear implant', Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 91 (1977), 935-45. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Tong, Y. C.; Dowell, R. C., 'Clinical results with a multi-channel pseudobulbar system', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 405 (1983), 370-7. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Tong, Y. C.; Dowell, R. C., 'Comparison of two cochlear implant speech-processing strategies', Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, 93 (1984), 127-31. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Tong, Y. C.; Martin, L. F., 'A multiple-channel cochlear implant. An evaluation using closed-set spondiac words', Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 95 (1981), 461-4. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Tong, Y. C.; Martin, L. F. A.; Busby, P. A.; Dowell, R. C.; Seldon, H. L.; Patrick, J. F., 'A multiple-channel cochlear implant. An evaluation using nonsense syllables', Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, 90 (1981), 227-30. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Tong, Y. C.; Martin, L. F.; Busby, P. A., 'A multiple-channel cochlear implant. An evaluation using an open-set word test', Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 91 (1981), 173-5. Details
  • Clark, G. M.; Tong, Y. C.; Patrick, J. F.; Seligman, P. M.; Crosby, P. A.; Kuzma, J. A.; Money, D. K., 'A multi-channel hearing prosthesis for profound-to-total hearing loss', Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, 8 (1984), 3-8. Details
  • Clark, G.M.; Black, R.C.; Forster I.C.; Patrick, J.F.; Tong, Y.C., 'Design Criteria of a Multiple-electrode Cochlear Implant Hearing Prosthesis', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 63 (1978), 631-633. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28713. Details
  • Tong, Y. C.; Clark, G. M., 'Loudness summation, masking, and temporal interaction for sensations by electric stimulation of two sites in the human cochlea', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 79 (1986), 1958-66. Details
  • Tong, Y. C.; Clark, G. M.; Blamey, P. J.; Busby, P. A.; Dowell, R. C., 'Psychological studies for two multiple-channel cochlear implant patients', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 71 (1982), 153-60. Details
  • Tong, Y. C.; Clark, G. M.; Seligman, P. M.; Patrick, J. F., 'Speech processing for a multiple-electrode cochlear implant hearing prosthesis', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 68 (1980), 1897-9. Details
  • van Hoesel, R.; Tong, Y. C.; Hollow, R. D.; Clark, G. M., 'Psychological and speech perception studies" A case report on a binaural cochlear implant subject', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 94 (1993), 3178-89. Details

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