Retinal prosthesis

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages 361-401

  Weiland, James D ^a,b   Liu, Wentai ^c   Humayun, Mark S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial vision; Electrical stimulation; Implantable medical device; Retinal degeneration; Visual rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; DATA TRANSFER; DISEASES; ELECTRODES; FACE RECOGNITION; MICROELECTRONICS; VISION;

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL REHABILITATION;

PROSTHETICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLINDNESS; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMPLANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PROSTHESIS; READING; RECOGNITION; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; VISION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLINDNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL DISEASES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 23844491146     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.7.060804.100435     Document Type: Review

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