Implantation and testing of subretinal film electrodes in domestic pigs

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 332-340

  Schanze, Thomas ^a,d   Sachs, Helmut G ^b   Wiesenack, Christoph ^b   Brunner, Ursula ^b   Sailer, Heiko ^c,e  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Retina Implant AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blindness; Electrical stimulation; Electrode; Implant; Pig; Retina; Visual cortex responses; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCARBON; POLYIMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FILM; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINOTOMY; SCLEROTOMY; SWINE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROCARBONS; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; SUS SCROFA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 31044443749     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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