Intraocular retinal prosthesis

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 99, Issue , 2001, Pages 271-300

  Humayun, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENUCLEATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECOGNITION; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA IMAGE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTRODE; IMPLANTATION; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

BIOMATERIAL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

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