Visual resolution with retinal implants estimated from recordings in cat visual cortex

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2675-2690

  Eckhorn, Reinhard ^a   Wilms, Marcus ^a   Schanze, Thomas ^a   Eger, Marcus ^a   Hesse, Lutz ^a   Eysel, Ulf T ^b   Kisvárday, Zoltán F ^b   Zrenner, Eberhart ^c   Gekeler, Florian ^c   Schwahn, Helmut ^c   Shinoda, Keisuke ^c   Sachs, Helmut ^d   Walter, Peter ^e  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Retina prosthesis; Spatial and temporal resolution; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MICROELECTRODES; PHOSPHENES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747343240     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.034     Document Type: Article

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