Architecture tradeoffs in high-density microstimulators for retinal prosthesis

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2629-2641

  Sivaprakasam, Mohanasankar ^a   Liu, Wentai ^a   Wang, Guoxing ^a   Weiland, James D ^b   Humayun, Mark S ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Functional electrical stimulation (FES); Implantable devices; Microstimulator; Retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROSTHETICS;

IMPLANTABLE DEVICE; MICROSTIMULATOR; RETINAL PROSTHESIS;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

EID: 29344473089     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.857554     Document Type: Article

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